#arrests

An 18-year-old from India was allegedly kidnapped in Famagusta area earlier this month by compatriots, who locked him in an apartment room for a week, the police said on Thursday. ...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu, the secretary-general of the north’s largest political party, the UBP, on Tuesday night said he and his party “strongly reject” a European Commission’s spokesman’s comments ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday night accused the Republic of Cyprus of intending to “mislead the public” in its reaction to the arrest of five Greek Cypriots in ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, on Tuesday expressed surprise at the ongoing detention of five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the ...

There can be “no tolerance for arbitrary detentions”, European parliament president Roberta Metsola’s spokesman Juri Laas said on Monday in response to the arrest and continued remand of five ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested on suspicion of espionage in the north last month spent more than ten hours in a military court in northern Nicosia on Friday. ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is providing humanitarian assistance to the five Greek Cypriots who remain in custody after having been arrested in the north on suspicion ...

Two of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested near the village of Galatia, near Trikomo, on suspicion of espionage, were all remanded in custody for a further three months ...

A 20-year-old Turkish national was arrested by the Republic of Cyprus’ police and handed over to the United Nations at the Ledra Palace, the Republic’s police confirmed on Thursday. ...

Ali Pilli, a Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ from the UBP, the party to which Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar belonged, and which has endorsed him again ahead of this year’s ...

Three men, aged 20 years old, 19 years old, and 18 years old, were all arrested after getting into a fight with one another, the police announced on Friday. The incident occurred in ...

Four men were remanded over the alleged attack against five players of the Paphos volleyball team Paphiakos before Paphos Court on Monday afternoon. The suspects, two aged 21, a 23-year-old and ...

Police arrested fifteen non-EU nationals in Nicosia’s walled city on Wednesday for residing illegally in Cyprus. The operation was initiated by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis and involved both police ...

Three men have been arrested after 14 mobile phones were discovered hidden in a refrigerator at the central prison, police said on Friday. The phones, found alongside 12 charging cables, were allegedly ...

Two more people were arrested in the early hours of Thursday in connection with police investigations into the bizarre criminal groups which has made headlines in recent weeks after using ...

Police in Limassol intervened on Monday night to prevent a suspected robbery when two masked people were spotted in a vehicle outside a kiosk in Polemidia. A 14-year-old was arrested ...

Seven of the eight Syrians arrested earlier this month on suspicion of financing a terrorist group, only to be then released, have been redetained under a different process, the Cyprus ...

Two more teens were arrested for investigated cases of thefts and burglaries committed in Aglanja and other areas of the island’s capital over the past week, police reported on ...

The number of arrests made in connection with the violent episodes which broke out at Sunday’s abandoned Limassol derby between Ael and Apollon rose to ten on Thursday, with ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32 years old, were arrested on Friday after being found digging a hole on the road to the St Hilarion castle in the Kyrenia district in the ...

Police arrested three persons aged 27, 33 and 40 years old on Monday and Tuesday for an investigated case of car parts theft. According to the police, on Monday evening, a 69-year-old man ...

Police on Tuesday arrested an additional three people in connection with an alleged brawl between families in Limassol. The trio, aged 47, 44, and 26 years old respectively, were remanded in custody for ...

Four people were arrested on suspicion of stealing from cars, the police announced on Saturday, commenting on two separate instances. One of the incidents occurred in Limassol, while the other ...

Five people were arrested in Paphos on Friday night following an incident involving the throwing of rocks and pieces of wood due to a reported financial dispute. A policeman on ...