# Ban on living on Chagos Islands is LAWFUL, court rules months after nine landed on outer islets

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ban-on-living-on-chagos-islands-is-lawful-court-rules-months-after-nine-landed-on-outer-islets/
- Published: 2026-11-12T14:41:07+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T15:35:54+00:00
- Original publisher: GB News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/chagos-islands-ban-living-lawful-court-nine-landed
- Topics: Asia, UK, World

## Key points

- Appeal court upholds the restriction on living in the Chagos Islands.
- Any challenge must be brought in an English court.
- Islanders’ lawyer says he will seek to take the case further.

## Summary

The BIOT Court of Appeal has ruled that the territory’s Supreme Court could not overturn the law restricting people’s right to live on the Chagos Islands. The decision reverses an earlier ruling that part of the restriction was unlawful and means any legal challenge must be brought in England.

The case followed the landing of nine people, including four Chagossians and former MP Adam Holloway, on Ile du Coin. Section nine of a 2004 law says no one may enter or remain in the archipelago without permission; the islanders’ lawyer says he will pursue an appeal to the Privy Council. The ruling comes as the UK Government continues negotiations to transfer sovereignty to Mauritius while retaining the joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia.

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