The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

At one point, five of the migrants were sent to Rwanda for medical treatment - two were later returned to Diego Garcia In a letter sent to one of them in May, and seen by the BBC, the BIOT ...

"At all times, the welfare and safety of migrants on BIOT has been our ... infrequent visits to the beach under security escort, the report says. The island of Diego Garcia is a British overseas ...

British navy ships rescued dozens and brought them to Diego Garcia, the largest of the disputed Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) – long claimed by Mauritius – and ...

Diego Garcia is the largest of 60 small islands belonging to the Chagos Archipelago, and is a disputed overseas territory of ...

Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), an area described as being "constitutionally distinct" from the UK. It is administered from London by a ...

Paul Surgen from Thoothoor, and were detained near the Diego Garcia island in the BIOT on charges of poaching. As the news of the detention spread in the fishers’ colony, the family of the ...

Subsequently, BIOT has consisted only of the six main island groups comprising the Chagos Archipelago. The largest and most southerly of the islands, Diego Garcia, contains a joint UK-US naval ...