#Emily Yiolitis

Dear Editor, I read the former justice minister’s op-ed with great interest. However, while Ms Yiolitis had valid points, she discredited her argument by closing with the Reverend Martin ...

Thursday’s sudden resignation of Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has further fuelled frenzied speculation about an imminent government reshuffle and sparked a fresh round of recriminations among political parties. Yiolitis ...

By Elias Hazou and George Psyllides After just a year in office, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has resigned, confirmed by the presidential palace during the day. In a brief statement ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis called on her EU counterparts on Tuesday to expedite and intensify the accession evaluation process for Schengen candidate countries, such as Cyprus, while intensifying police cooperation ...

New fire stations are being planned, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis said on Monday as the summer, and its associated fire season, gets underway. Speaking at the fire service exercise Torch, ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Monday highlighted improvements made in Cyprus in recent years to safeguard the LGBTI community but advocacy groups have drawn attention to ongoing difficulties. In a ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Monday said the police complaint filed by member of Cyprus’ women’s national shooting team Andri Eleftheriou, who said she was sexually abused twice by ...

The police, together with health professionals, have assumed a heavy burden in the fight against the pandemic, with the members of the force having to enforce the measures to stop ...

Ahead of Easter, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Thursday sent a message of hope during what she called “a difficult time for everyone,” while urging compliance with measures to contain ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis praised parliament’s passing of a bill which will overhaul the way in which minors are treated and handled across the justice system. According to Yiolitis, ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis urged parliament anew on Wednesday to approve vital justice reform bills before the May elections or risk losing the momentum. The House legal affairs committee discussed ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Wednesday submitted bills to overhaul the justice system to the House legal affairs committee and urged MPs they be sent to the plenary before the ...

Against a backdrop of an increase in violence against women, MPs on Monday started to review of a new bill incorporating the Istanbul Convention as Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis announced ...

Two Limassol-based Green MP candidates have withdrawn from the upcoming parliamentary elections after another party candidate verbally assaulted a female minister. Actress Melanie Steliou Nicolaou announced her withdrawal in a ...

A Greens candidate MP has been referred to the party’s disciplinary council after hurling insults on social media at Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, it emerged on Tuesday. Party head ...

A legal framework to tackle gender violence in compliance with the Istanbul Convention is expected to be put in place soon, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis said on Monday, International Women’...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Tuesday urged people who have been sexually abused or harassed to find the courage to report their cases to the authorities. Yiolitis met the assistant ...

Opposition MPs on Monday piled on Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis for having reported to authorities a Twitter parody account – leading to police raiding the home of a Larnaca woman – with ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Wednesday said police followed standard procedure while handling her complaint last December against a parody account on Twitter, which had targeted her father. The minister ...

The president may have drawn a line under the minister of justice and the Twitter incident but legally it’s far from over By Achilleas Demetriades The issue of the ...

The woman whose home was raided by police late last month over a parody account on Twitter mocking Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has confirmed she will sue the government as ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis will be abstaining from her duties for 10 days, it was announced on Monday, so that she can recover from an operation. The minister has been on ...

Concluding Thursday night’s televised address, President Anastasiades described the measures to combat corruption, which were to be announced the following day, as “the biggest mission ever undertaken in the ...

EVERYTHING he does to wriggle out of the problems he has created for himself ends up causing him more trouble. He could have lost his touch, his political craftiness might ...