#Prison

The attorney for an Israeli national wanted by Russia in connection with a sea piracy incident 16 years ago has urged Cypriot authorities not to extradite him to the Russian Federation, ...

The new justice minister on Thursday promised action to tackle overcrowding at the central prisons complex, but said that building a new facility from scratch was not currently in the ...

Measures to address overcrowding, improve living conditions, and strengthen supervision at Nicosia central prisons will be taken, Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris said on Saturday. He was speaking after a meeting ...

The Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture warned of “serious problems” at Cyprus’ central prison in Nicosia and said it had “grave concerns” over “the high ...

A 45-year-old inmate who became ill at the central prisons on Saturday night has died of a heart attack, a post-mortem confirmed on Monday. According to findings by a forensic ...

Police on Monday formally registered a case against former central prisons director Anna Aristotelous, who is accused of illegally storing thousands of confidential documents at the home of a prison ...

The government has begun testing a new system to detect and disable illegal mobile phones in the central prisons, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. The move marks the ...

Both the justice ministry and police have been accused of not taking an alleged rape in the central prison seriously enough, it appeared on Wednesday. The incident came to light ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an application by a prison warden, who is a suspect in an ongoing criminal case, to annul a previous court order authorising the seizure of ...

The president of the association for the protection of the rights of prisoners and detainees, Alexandros Clerides, said on Tuesday that the government must be held accountable for the chronic ...

The justice ministry said is taking active measures to address the overcrowding of prisons, an issue Cyprus has been slammed for in a Council of Europe report, it said on ...

The prisons department on Monday sought to rubbish allegations of unhygienic conditions for inmates – including tainted food and unclean showers – attributing such claims to “ulterior motives”. In a statement, it ...

The police are investigating an alleged ring of illegal activities, including drug trafficking and providing protection, with six people already under arrest, among them a 45-year-old convict, it emerged on ...

Five individuals arrested on Thursday in connection with an ongoing investigation into official documents found at the home of a prison warden were remanded for seven days on Friday by ...

Authorities on Thursday arrested five persons – four prison wardens and a female police cadet – in connection with an ongoing investigation into documents found in the residence of a prison warden ...

Amid reports revealing Cypriot prisons arethe most overcrowded in Europe,at an occupancy rate of 226.2 per cent, the prison guards branch of the Pasydy union on Tuesday warned that “critical ...

An attack inside Cyprus’ central prisons was on Tuesday branded an “attempted murder” by a prisoners’ rights group, which called for an urgent police investigation. The Association for the Protection ...

A total of 1,271 inmates were taken to state and private hospitals in 2024, the prisons department said on Tuesday, slamming press reports questioning the administration’s policy as “unfounded”. Replying to ...

An early morning prison search on Friday produced a number of banned items, such as a smart watch, but no mobile phones were found, the prison administration said on Friday ...

The prisons department on Tuesday denied allegations that the new Wing 11 at the central prison has security issues after reports surfaced of an inmate being beaten with a padlock. “We ...

Efforts to tackle prison overpopulation are ongoing, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday at the opening of a new high-security wing at the Central Prisons. The project transformed an existing ...

A detention centre for juvenile offenders is to be up and running by January 1, 2026 at the latest, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Tuesday. The minister joined a round-table discussion ...

The number of people in prison in the north has fallen to 840, ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Friday night. Addressing the ‘parliamentary’ finance committee, where his ‘ministry’s’ budget ...

There is a glaring gap in training and security protocols for the prison service and police officers, which became all the more apparent after convict Doros Theofanous last month escaped ...