Sri Lankan Tamil migrants were unlawfully detained for years on the remote British territory of Diego Garcia, a judge has ruled.
In 2021, dozens of Tamils became the first people ever to claim asylum on the Indian Ocean island, which is the site of a secretive UK-US military base.
They were held for years in a small fenced-off camp, before being brought to the UK earlier this month in what the government described as a "one-off" move in the interests of their welfare.
Reacting to the ruling, lawyer Simon Robinson with UK firm Duncan Lewis representing some of the migrants, said "questions need to be answered about how, in the 21st century, this was able to happen".