A crucial judgment concerning the rights of Chagossians living on their ancestral islands will be delivered on Thursday, 12 November, in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for their future.
Vicky Richter · 9 November 2026Great British PAC is standing alongside Chagossian campaigners at the Royal Courts of Justice today (Thursday, 5 November 2026), as questions mount over Labour's plan to surrender British sovereignty over one of the world's most strategically important military territories.
Vicky Richter · 5 November 2026Lord Weir's British Sovereignty Protection (Chagos Islands) Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Lords without a division, despite the Labour Government refusing to support it.
GBPAC Agent · 23 October 2026The Metropolitan Police spent two days assessing a post on X and has now closed the matter. No charge will follow. But the episode has turned attention back to a decision that has never been put right: the agreement to hand sovereignty over the Chagossian homeland to Mauritius. We have been fighting that decision in the courts for more than a year, and on 5 November we will be back.
Vicky Richter · 19 October 2026The worst civil unrest in Mauritius for decades has prompted urgent demands for answers from the British Government after 27-year-old mother Élodie Thomas was shot by police, curfews were imposed and Chagossian representatives raised concerns that the injured woman may be a member of their community.
Clair Bullivant · 15 October 2026PAC funds Imperium Chambers to provide urgent legal assistance after Chagossian families were separated at the UK border, while one seriously injured British Chagossian father was rushed to hospital
Vicky Richter · 28 September 2026Great British PAC has committed a further £10,000 towards the next stage of a Judicial Review brought by Chagossians challenging the Government’s handling of decisions over the future of the Chagos Islands.
Vicky Richter · 28 September 2026The Defence Secretary has conceded the Chagos Islands deal is not good enough without American backing, and placed the origin of the legal dispute in decolonisation. Both the security case and the legal case for the treaty are now being tested at the same time.
Vicky Richter · 23 September 2026Families due to arrive at Manchester Airport this morning (Tuesday 22 September) after leaving Mauritius, with some Chagossians saying they are too frightened to speak publicly for fear of reprisals.
Vicky Richter · 22 September 2026Great British PAC vows to keep fighting the Chagos surrender as ministers postpone a decision on the size of Britain's next-generation attack submarine fleet until 2028
Vicky Richter · 13 September 2026With a YouGov poll showing 72% of Britons want the Chagossian people to have a vote, the Great British PAC is leading the fight against the Chagos surrender. Through legal action, a petition of thousands, and a Government in Exile, the campaign has made one question unavoidable: should the Chagossians not decide their own future?
Vicky Richter · 1 September 2026As the Court of Appeal hearing reaches day two, lawyers for the Chagossian people put their case, with the fight increasingly turning on the Right of Abode and prerogative power.
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