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Police relayed to the Nicosia district court on Wednesday that an alleged €800,000 contract to assassinate former convict Giorgos Xiourouppas in his car in Limassol was financed from the United Arab ...

The evidence presented by prosecutors in court again became a bone of contention on Tuesday in the trial concerning the alleged theft of thousands of documents from the central prisons. ...

A female prison guard was injured during a fight between inmates at the central prison on Sunday, with police still investigating the cause of the incident. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Prosecutors and defence lawyers got into a heated argument on Thursday over the evidence being presented in court, in the trial concerning the alleged theft of thousands of documents from ...

Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday allowed prosecutors to add one more person to their list of witnesses in the trial concerning the theft of thousands of documents from the central ...

New prisons director Giorgos Ioannou officially took up his duties on Monday, pledging to establish a modern, secure and humane correctional system, as Justice Minister Costas Fitiris warned that there ...

George Ioannou officially took over as director of the central prisons on Monday, following a handover ceremony at the prisons department. Ioannou, a retired military officer and former military attaché ...

The government has spent seven months attempting to resolve where to locate the new central prison, with the project now standing on its third iteration with an expected cost of ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Thursday approved amendments to charges against eight defendants in the central prisons documents case, increasing the number of digital items allegedly stolen from 421 to 551, while ...

Draft plans for a new central prison at Ayios Sozomenos, with room for at least 1,500 inmates, were presented to the House finance committee on Monday by Justice Minister Costas Fitiris, ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has said juveniles will be held in portacabins next to the central prisons rather than at Menoyia, telling the House finance committee on Monday that the ...

Prisoners at the central prisons are being forced to sleep on the floor due to overcrowding and inadequate facilities, administration commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides told MPs on Wednesday. Presenting her ...

The legal service will not agree to drop the charges against five defendants in the central prisons’ documents trial, prosecution lawyer Vasilis Bissas told the Nicosia criminal court on Friday. ...

The final decision on where the new central prison will be built will be made after the completion of a master plan, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris said on Thursday, with ...

Objections to the locating of a new central prison in their area were raised on Tuesday by representatives of the municipalities of South Nicosia-Dali and Yeri-Latsia during a meeting with ...

The communities in the area earmarked as the site for the new central prisons said on Tuesday they will air their grievances directly to Justice Minister Costas Fitiris when they ...

Security at police detention centres will be discussed on Monday following the escape of a 19-year-old remand prisoner from the Lakatamia holding cells on Friday night. Justice Minister Costas Fitiris ...

Plans to neuter some 70 cats living at the central prisons have stalled over the availability of €5,000 needed to carry out the procedure, the Animal Party said on Sunday. The party ...

A series of measures aimed at tackling delays in the treatment of prisoners at public hospitals, improving the handling of psychiatric cases and strengthening the forensic medicine service were agreed ...

The planned central prisons at Ayios Sozomenos will be situated well away from the village’s archaeological remains, the justice ministry assured on Tuesday, after a meeting between Justice Minister ...

The Ecologists has raised concerns over plans to relocate the central prisons to Ayios Sozomenos, warning that the proposed site could affect protected land within the Natura 2000 network. In a ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday rejected a request made by the defence for the release of documents and electronic files in the case against former prison director Anna Aristotelous ...

Choosing a site for the new central prison is proving rather challenging for the government, which has made the matter more difficult by the slapdash decisions it has taken. The ...

Akel called on Friday for the justice ministry to carry out proper studies and consult with local authorities before proceeding with its decision to locate the new central prisons in ...