UK loses Diego Garcia appeal
Appeal court expresses ‘very serious concern’ about migrants’ welfare
A UK government official who administers the British Indian Ocean Territory has lost an appeal against a court order requiring him to allow limited freedom of movement to a group of 47 asylum seekers on the island of Diego Garcia.
The Foreign Office had been told by the US government, which operates a strategic air base on the closed coral atoll, that th…
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