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EXCLUSIVE
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the moral scandal of homeless Chagossians in Britain
coming very soon!
Meet Emma’s* Chagossian family. Her relatives originated from the Chagos Islands and Britain deported them by force. In mainland Britain the family was evicted from council-provided accommodation.
Starmer’s old legal firm won case against Chagos Islands’ court: and now?
Instead of the UK Prime Minister defending people with little power, his Government is attempting to use its powerful executive diktat to keep Chagossian people off the islands
- THE CHAGOS FILES team
News: 9 March 2026
Will MPs sign a Declaration giving consent to Chagossians before changing territorial sovereignty?
Friends of the Overseas British Territory (FOTBOT) are asking MPs to sign a Declaration they will always ask the consent of those living on overseas territories for major changes such as sovereignty
News: 8 March 2026
If MPs vote “yes” to the deal, who will stand up for Chagossians’ rights?
OPINION
Tessa Clarke, Editor, THE CHAGOS FILES, argues the Chagossians around the world must unite and win support among the British and Mauritian people for their rights.
News: 23 February 2026
Chagossians land on Chagos - what now?
NEWS
Misley Mandarin, head of BIOT Citizen group, and his “belongers” group are defiant about the Chagossians’ right to stay on their homeland. He is threatened with eviction and arrest. Now a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) judge has granted a right for their case to be heard.
News: 18 February 2026: updated 20 February 2026
Chagos Islanders are unlikely to be able to return to their homeland despite Britain’s landmark agreement to transfer sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius, The Times reports.
News: 22 April 2025
THE CHAGOS FILES
we investigate
Reporter Tessa Clarke and the team investigate stories and ideas. We produce reports, books and documentaries. For you.
THE CHAGOS FILES is our current journalism project investigating the UK Government’s undemocratic Chagos Islands sovereignty deal.
Sixty years ago the British government removed several thousand people living on The Chagos Islands, a British overseas territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Chagossian people and their families were taken against their will mainly to Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK.
Since then those born on the islands and their descendants have been denied the democratic right to return to their homeland and to self-determination.
At a time of geopolitical realignment and changing ideology that increasingly ignores national boundaries and people's claims of sovereignty, THE CHAGOS FILES reveals the new ways governments frustrate the democratic demands of the Chagossian people.
Help us investigate how actions by Governments and international courts on this issue undermine democracy for us all.