All five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July have now been released on bail, after a civilian court in Trikomo ordered the release of the final two who remained in custody.

The pair were released on a bail worth 100,000TL (€2,060), while also being banned from leaving the north until the conclusion of their trial, with none of the five allowed to leave the north.

The five stand accused of privacy violations, trespassing and breaching the peace at the Trikomo court.

They also face separate charges at a military court in northern Nicosia related to the manner in which they entered the north.

Three of the five had been released on bail at the military court on Wednesday after the north’s supreme court had ruled last week that the remand handed down to them by the that court during the early hours of August 2 was illegal.

The remaining two Greek Cypriots had been subject to a separate three-month remand, which was handed down by the Trikomo court in July. That remand was also ruled illegal by the north’s supreme court on Monday.

At the time, presiding judge Beril Cagdal stressed that a remand order “should not take the form of a punishment for the defendants”, before later adding that the assessment that crimes of which the five stand accused are “serious crimes” constituted a “fundamental error” on the part of the Trikomo court.

The circumstances surrounding the five’s arrest had been explained at the military court on Wednesday, with investigating officer Hasan Ozguc had told the court that he had received a complaint that a car with Greek Cypriot registration plates had entered a “tourist area” in the village of Bogazi, near Trikomo.

He said the complainants had reported that the car’s occupants were “wandering around with a blue folder in their hands” and that this “caused discomfort”.

As such, he said, he had dispatched a police officer to deal with the matter.

He said the officer had stopped the vehicle in front of a petrol station and taken the five Greek Cypriots to a police station, before their vehicle was searched and the blue folder was found in its boot.

Then, he said, he demanded an explanation from the five, who “all gave the same answer” – that they were visiting property which one of the five, the 68-year-old man, “had inherited from his father”.

He added that the 68-year-old man had told him that they “do this all the time” and that “there had been no problems before”.

At the military court, the police and the prosecution allege that when the five crossed in one car from the British Dhekelia base through the Strovilia crossing point, near Famagusta, only four identity cards were handed over for inspection on the Turkish Cypriot side of the crossing point.

As such, one of the five Greek Cypriots has been charged with illegally entering the north, while the other four are accused of aiding and abetting the illegal entry.

The five Greek Cypriots deny all charges.