Alper Ali Riza

Freedom of thought and freedom of expression are related but discrete rights under European human rights law. You are free to think what you like, but you are not free ...

There is an urgent need to open lines of communication and bring this war to an end By Alper Ali Riza Ukraine has been pleading for help from Nato and ...

His decision to invade Ukraine has made the task of criticising Nato difficult, but the reality is that Nato is not innocent I am happy to don sackcloth and ashes ...

Brexit provides no reasonable justification for depriving British expats in Cyprus of the right to vote in municipal elections Brexit is no justification for disenfranchising British permanent residents settled in ...

For Britain, the Queen has been a source of strength and continuity for 70 years By Alper Ali Riza 2022 is the Queen’s platinum jubilee year. She has been served by 12 ...

From being a gang-rape victim, the complainant was interviewed as a suspect By Alper Ali Riza By a majority of two to one the Supreme Court of Cyprus quashed the ...

Those who cannot understand Russia’s security fears over Nato’s expansion into East Europe are either not fair minded or unhistorical By Alper Ali Riza Nato has absorbed every ...

Novak Djokovic is world tennis champion, not an anti vax champion. He arrived in Australia armed with a visa that gave him a presumptive right to enter and take part ...

Nothing would become Johnson more than having to resign over too many parties. Boris Johnson was caught bang to rights. While still recuperating from fever and low oxygenation brought on ...

By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls. She ...

By Alper Ali Riza The victory of Helen Morgan over the Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst in the North Shropshire mid-term election on Friday is a shot across the bows of ...

The four pillars of medical ethics should hold firm under a national health service According to the Modern Hippocratic Oath there is art to medicine. It is the gift of ...

From Alpha to Omega but leaving out Xi Alpha was the UK variant, Beta the South African, Gamma the Brazilian, and Delta the Indian. The Chinese virus is outside the ...

A look at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial In some states in the US when you leave home you check you have not forgotten your house keys, your wallet, your mobile, ...

By Alper Ali Riza Corruption, what corruption? Britain is not a corrupt country was Boris Johnson’s reply to criticism that the government manipulated its huge parliamentary majority to save ...

When the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 it surrendered to the EU her sovereign right to control its borders in refugee claims. A surrender of so much sovereignty ...

About 65 million years ago, before God created mankind, planet Earth was dominated by dinosaurs. Children love them as toys, but it is interesting in these climate change times to notice ...

There are rights and obligations, and you can’t invoke rights but eschew obligations If called upon to rule on the matter, no European institution would buy the argument that ...

The plight of Theklia and Christos two mixed heritage children refused Cypriot ID cards is too close to home and personally too close to the bone to ignore. It was ...

The primacy of the EU’s legal system over the laws and constitutions of member states is necessary for the union to exist By Alper Ali Riza The spat between ...

Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...

I don’t care what people call their national coffee so long as it tastes like Turkish coffee Apologies to Patroclos for encroaching on coffeeshop territory. I’ve been meaning ...

By Alper Ali Riza A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...

The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...