{"id":15335,"date":"2021-01-28T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-chagos-islands-in-favour-of-mauritius"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:48:43","slug":"un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-chagos-islands-in-favour-of-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-chagos-islands-in-favour-of-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"UN court rejects UK claim to Chagos Islands in favour of Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK urged to end \u2018unlawful occupation\u2019 of major strategic asset in Indian Ocean<\/p><p>The UK has been urged to end its \u201cunlawful occupation\u201d of the Chagos Islands by the prime minister of Mauritius, after Britain\u2019s claim to sovereignty over the strategically important islands in the Indian Ocean was comprehensively rejected by the United Nation\u2019s special international maritime court in Hamburg.<\/p><p>The court ruling provides a major headache as the islands represent the UK\u2019s main strategic asset in the Indian Ocean, but a refusal to comply with the judgment will damage Britain\u2019s international reputation for compliance with the law.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/29\/what-about-justice-chagos-islanders-pin-their-hopes-on-biden\">'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-chagos-islands-in-favour-of-mauritius\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-chagos-islands-in-favour-of-mauritius\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK urged to end \u2018unlawful occupation\u2019 of major strategic asset in Indian OceanThe UK has been urged to end its \u201cunlawful occupation\u201d of the Chagos Islands by the prime minister of Mauritius, after Britain\u2019s claim to sovereignty over the strategically i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3294,6,640,3295,1314,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15345,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/15345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}