#domestic violence

The police on Wednesday announced that they had launched an investigation after media reports surfaced that a man had locked his mother in her house for several months, and that ...

The government’s new mobile application allowing victims of domestic violence to report incidents directly to the police, named Elpis from the Greek word for hope, was unveiled on Monday. ...

A police officer has been arrested after being accused of domestic violence by his partner, according to reports on Wednesday. News website Alpha reported that the accusation was the third ...

Domestic violence is on the rise with over 11,000 cases reported in five years, but it appears that police do not always respond speedily to incidents involving foreign nationals. Police have ...

The House plenum on Thursday greenlit a law that affords free legal aid to women who are victims of abuse and to victims of domestic violence. Under the legislation, women ...

Cyprus and Switzerland signed on Monday two funding agreements amounting to over €10 million over migration management, as well as domestic violence. The agreements fall under the framework of the Second ...

There is a steep rise in domestic violence cases, and efforts to roll out a ‘panic button’ to help victims should be ready in the next three months, Justice Minister ...

A 47-year-old man and his three sons, aged 24, 22 and 19 years old respectively, were remanded in custody for six days, having been arrested for attacking the man’s ex-wife’s new ...

Three MPs on Thursday jointly tabled a bill aiming to introduce the use of a ‘panic button’ for prevention of domestic abuse and violence against women. The bill is co-sponsored ...

A 48-year-old man who allegedly killed his 41-year-old estranged wife in Tremithousa, near Paphos, was transferred to the Athalassa psychiatric hospital on Monday after being discharged from the Paphos general, ...

A 30-year-old woman jumped out of the first-floor balcony to escape her violent husband, Nicosia district court heard on Sunday. The woman was found injured on a street in Nicosia’...

A 32-year-old man appeared in court on Sunday accused of causing actual bodily harm and “using a weapon to incite terror” in Xylotymbou. He is being investigated for a total ...

Almost 500 calls were made to a domestic violence helpline in the span of 16 days it emerged on Friday, after research revealed that 25 per cent of university students in Cyprus feel ...

The police investigated nearly 500 cases of domestic violence and issued 93 arrests during the months of September and October, statistics released on Tuesday showed. According to data provided to the Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci has reacted furiously after the north’s ‘labour ministry’ removed the Istanbul convention from northern Nicosia’s violence against women protocol. The Istanbul convention ...

Violence against women is one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world with statistics that show it as a pandemic, the advisory committee for the prevention and ...

Paphos police dealt with thirty-two cases of family violence in October. According to Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou, of the 32 cases, 13 were registered for trial before the Paphos District Court; ...

Victims of domestic of violence were on Monday encouraged to speak out and not hesitate to file complaints by chief the Turkish Cypriot police’s Violence against women intervention unit ...

The number of domestic violence reports in Cyprus has soared in recent years, with a 319 per cent increase in reports seen since 2018. In 2022, the number of domestic violence reports reached 3,082, ...

The legal service has become increasingly concerned over the growing number of domestic abuse victims who pull back from court trials leading to perpetrators walking away scot-free. A spokesperson from ...

Domestic violence prevention services handled over 3,000 cases of domestic violence in 2022, the association of domestic violence prevention services (Spavo) said. The total of 3,122 incidents handled shows an increasing trend, up ...

Thirteen cases of domestic violence in Paphos were dealt with by the family violence unit in April, police said on Friday. According to Paphos police spokesman and head of CID ...

Environment Commissioner Clelia Vassiliou on Wednesday said her last act in office will be the planting of 100 trees in Aronas, near Aglandjia in honour of the over 3,800 cases of domestic ...

Fourteen cases were investigated by the family violence unit of the Paphos police in January, resulting in 15 arrests and the issuance of restraining orders for six people. According to police, ...