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Prison staff welcomed government plans to build new prison facilities and recruit additional guards in union statement released on Thursday. The prison branch of Pasydy described announcements by Justice Minister ...

New prisons are to be constructed on the outskirts of Nicosia, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris announced on Wednesday, confirming that plans to expand the existing central prisons have been suspended. ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris is set to meet with police union representatives on Friday, January 2, to discuss ongoing security matters, as well as working hours and holiday adjustments, which had ...

Inmates of the central prison who have committed minor crimes could be released before serving their full sentence due to the facility’s overcrowding crisis, the government said on Tuesday. “...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly trying to bring paper sheets soaked with a banned substance into central prisons, authorities said on Saturday. The justice ministry stated that ...

For the third time in the less than two weeks he has been in office, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris visited the central prisons on Tuesday. The visit is part of ...

A war of words broke out on Tuesday between civil servants union Pasydy and the Isotita trade union over working conditions at Cyprus’ central prisons. Pasydy’s prison branch accused ...

Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris was urged on Friday by the association for the protection of the rights of prisoners to take immediate action to address the situation at the central ...

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 ...

The “selective” leaking of documents concerning the central prison serves “personal and/or other political purposes” and undermines a fair trial, the law firm representing former deputy prison director Athena ...

The eight people facing charges concerning the confidential documents from the prisons found in the home of a chief warden have been referred to a trial before the criminal court ...

Prisoner found dead in central prison A 23-year-old Syrian national, identified as Abdul Kader Almfalani, currently serving a sentence at Nicosia central prison, has died, police confirmed on Saturday. He ...

It is not the first time the Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture has issued a damning report about Nicosia central prison, expressing “grave concerns” about ...

New Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris on Thursday pledged immediate steps to address severe failings in the prison system, following a damning report by the European council. The minister spent more ...

Following a report warning of ‘serious concerns’ published by the Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture, Justice Minster Costas Fitiris on Wednesday said he will pay ...

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 35-year-old man was killed in the central prison on Sunday, with the police on Monday arresting another inmate on suspicion of premeditated murder. The police on Monday confirmed that ...

The situation in the prisons has been threatening the safety of the staff and inmates alike for years, Isotita trade union warned on Thursday, “sounding the alarm before there were ...

Lawyer Leto Kariolou, defending former deputy director of the central prisons Athena Demetriou, on Wednesday said that newly leaked allegations were part of continuous “attempts to undermine her client’s ...

The Audit Office on Tuesday requested that Athena Demetriou, former deputy director of the central prisons, be suspended. Demetriou is currently employed at the Audit Office. She is included in ...

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 recently announced postponement of the opening of a detention centre for minors, as well as a ban on the use of mobile phones in the central prison were the ...

Lawyer Christos Triantafyllides, representing former prisons director Anna Aristotelous, has renewed calls for an independent investigator to take over the probe into missing prison documents, arguing the police cannot handle ...

No independent investigator has been appointed to probe allegations of rape at the central prison after the legal service did not offer a positive response to a request for one ...