#trial

The trial of furloughed Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos resumed on Thursday, with the prosecution calling to the stand a number of witnesses acquainted with the alleged rape victim. Phedonos faces ...

Fresh scrutiny fell on the handling of a key protected witness on Wednesday as Giorgos Christodoulou, known as ‘Zavrantonas’, appeared before the Nicosia criminal court for the start of his ...

Proceedings continued on Tuesday before the Nicosia district court in the trial concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Konstantinos in 2019, with three police officers giving evidence for the prosecution as ...

The five elderly Greek Cypriots who were arrested for alleged espionage in the north on July 19 are due to appear before court in the north for the proceedings of their ...

A lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial sought on Friday to undercut the claim of the prosecution’s star witness that Combs raped ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki was released on Wednesday morning after being taken into custody for failing to appear at the Nicosia District Court during his scheduled hearing. Yiannaki had ...

Nicosia Criminal Court postponed the trial of Simon Aykut due to health reasons. The Israeli-Turkish businessman is accused of usurping Greek-Cypriot properties in the north. According to Aykut’s defence ...

The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then ...

Lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou has objected to participating in the ecclesiastical trial against two monks, his clients, involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, it emerged on Thursday. Efstathiou, who is ...

It is now time for the state to begin preparing criminal prosecutions against those involved in the killing of Thanasis Nicolaou, investigator Savvas Matsas said on Monday. Speaking to the ...

A New York state appeals judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 trial on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu, which was due to take place on Thursday, has been postponed to April 18. The north’s military court took the decision ...

The trial of the driver of a pickup truck which crashed into another vehicle and killed its four occupants on New Year’s Eve was postponed on Thursday. The man’...

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed for the third time on Monday. The ...

In a surprising twist on Wednesday, all charges against lawyer Andreas Pittadjis in the golden passports case were dropped at the Nicosia criminal court. He will now take on the ...

The trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, began in Trikomo on Wednesday. The trial had been adjourned ...

The trial of a man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot Zehie Helin Reessur in the north in January has been postponed again, this time until August 11 to facilitate more ...

A Kosovo court has sentenced the country’s former secret service chief to four years and eight months in prison for the arrest and extradition to Turkey of six Turkish ...

Kevin Spacey is an aggressive “sexual bully” who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the start of ...

Nicosia criminal court threw out the ‘golden passports’ case on Wednesday, citing a change in the court composition. As a result, the case will have to be refiled, but in ...

A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin faces trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he participated in a vast scheme that generated tens of millions of ...

Kevin Spacey on Thursday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner ...

The woman who accused former Bishop of Kition, Chrysostomos, of indecently assaulting her said she was in court to “get the truth out”, during her cross-examination by the lawyer for ...