#central prison

Three people were arrested over an attack on a man who is being held in custody in the central prison, the police announced on Friday. The men are aged 34, 28, and 26 ...

A prison warden, a prison inmate and the inmate’s wife will stand trial for corruption, bribery and racketeering, following a decision handed down by Nicosia district court on Thursday. ...

Prisoners in the central prisons will be allowed an additional family visit over the Easter weekend, authorities announced on Thursday. The initiative aims to foster closer family ties during the ...

A 77-year-old Nicosia resident was arrested on Monday in connection with the 14 mobile phones found last week inside a fridge in the central prisons. The phones, found alongside 12 charging cables, ...

Releasing prisoners on licence appears to be causing more problems than it solves, with the council responsible for these decisions citing serious concerns, including delays and incomplete information from the ...

Three suspects involved in a large quantity drug case, were brought before the Limassol criminal court on Thursday. The case involves two men aged 50 and 33 and a woman aged 32 who ...

More fighting broke out between inmates at the Nicosia central prison on Saturday, making it the second day in a row of escalating violence behind bars. Conflicting reports said three ...

A 42-year-old was sentenced to nine years in jail by the Famagusta district court for the manslaughter of Nikos Angeli, 34. Police said in a press release that the 42-year-old had ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Friday sentenced a 29-year-old man to five years in prison today after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. A police statement said that “members of ...

The government was given until the beginning of 2026 to open a juvenile detention centre by the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday. Committee chairman Nikos Tornaritis said the plans to ...

A 25-year-old woman was sentenced to ten years in jail on Monday, after having attempted to smuggle around 9.5 kilograms of cannabis into the country. The woman had been arrested at ...

The ‘job’ was ordered on video call within the prison cell A Supreme Court decision to quash an arrest warrant has brought to light the extent of organised crime within ...

A new open wing at the central prison is set to be opened by the end of the month, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. Hartsiotis was speaking following ...

An Egyptian national who was in prison in Cyprus died in the early hours of Thursday morning. The man, aged 57, had reportedly been suffering from “chronic and serious medical problems” ...

Ioannis Kapnoullas resigned as prison director on Friday, with the justice ministry saying he had submitted his resignation for “personal reasons”. In his place, the ministry has appointed police chief ...

A total of 35 individuals under the age of 21, convicted for drug offenses or facing charges for rape, are currently being held together with minors in a special wing at the ...

In response to the surge of criminal activities throughout Cyprus in recent weeks, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou has proposed the deployment of armed patrols in the streets, it was announced ...

Two men, aged 24 and 25, have been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison at Famagusta District Court for smuggling migrants to Cyprus. According to a police bulletin on Friday, the two ...

The 58-year-old prison guard who was arrested in possession of drugs while driving to his shift was remanded in custody for a week on Thursday. The prison guard, who was ...

The House human rights committee said on Monday expressed concerns over the government’s delays in creating a juvenile detainee centre. MPs were also worried over the way preparation and ...

The justice ministry irked the parliamentary legal affairs committee on Wednesday, after it failed to submit to deputies a revised bill on modernising the prisons, so as to comply with ...

Prison guards have been instructed to carry out thorough checks on inmates to find illicit mobile phones as the justice ministry is trying to clampdown on organised crime unfolding in ...

A row over the need to renovate the Nicosia prisons has been overshadowed by a spat between prison officials regarding comments on the issue, with the deputy director accusing a ...

All necessary disciplinary proceedings will be carried out against an inmate who falsely claimed to have swallowed four blades, the prison department announced on Wednesday. The prisoner allegedly went up ...