#extradition

The Netherlands has sent an extradition request to Sierra Leone for convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, the Dutch justice minister said on Thursday, adding that he hoped to find the ...

A 41-year-old man from Georgia, wanted by the Greek authorities, was arrested on Thursday evening by members of Limassol’s bicycle police patrol. He was remanded in custody until January 2 ...

Following a coordinated manhunt, police recaptured a Swedish fugitive in the Larnaca area almost 24 hours after he escaped from a private clinic while supposedly under guard. He was found on ...

Six months after the exposure of a major international sham marriage scheme in Cyprus, a 39-year-old Pakistani man, believed to be the ringleader, was arrested in Germany and extradited to ...

Paphos police arrested a 37-year-old man overnight who was wanted by the Ukrainian authorities for arson and whose extradition process in underway on Friday. According to Paphos assistant police chief, ...

A 35-year-old man wanted in Germany in connection with a kidnapping case was arrested on Friday at Larnaca airport. Police said the man arrived at Larnaca just before 5pm on ...

A man wanted by the German authorities for an investigated case of fraud involving thousands of euros, is to appear before court on Wednesday to begin his extradition procedure. Paphos ...

All necessary measures will be taken to transfer Kenan Ayaz to Cyprus, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis assured on Thursday, amid growing political pressure on the government to prevent Ayaz’s ...

Police in Paphos arrested of a 56-year-old woman residing in the district who was wanted by British authorities for fraud.  According to the police, the woman was arrested on Tuesday ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 35-year-old Russian national under an international warrant issued by the Russian Federation for terrorism-related charges. The arrest occurred on Tuesday, with the United Nations reportedly ...

An appeals court on Monday upheld a prior judgement by a district court ruling on the extradition of a wanted German national. The case concerns Reinwald Karl Heinz, against whom ...

Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat was released pending a trial on Friday, with his trial set to begin on February 29. In a hearing at the Nicosia District court, he was ...

The fate of a man ordered to be extradited to Russia to face theft charges for allegedly providing false information for compensation linked to the Chernobyl disaster remained unknown on ...

Paphos police arrested a 67-year-old man wanted by authorities in Germany on fraud and embezzlement charges, authorities said on Thursday. The man was arrested as soon as he arrived in ...

Police in Paphos on Wednesday arrested a 48-year-old permanent resident for a case of circulating forged documents as well as in response to a European arrest warrant pending against him. ...

The trial of Kenan Ayaz will resume at Hamburg’s higher regional court in Germany on Tuesday, where he faces charges related to his membership of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (...

The lawyer of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz, currently in prison in Germany, visited him on September 11 in Hamburg, an announcement from his legal team said on Wednesday. Ayaz was extradited ...

Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz, currently detained in Germany, will continue to have his lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou working with him, who has since partnered with a local legal expert, it emerged ...

A 53-year-old man on Monday pleaded not guilty to burglary charges brought against him for incidents in July 2022. On Monday, the man appeared in the Larnaca-Famagusta Criminal Court, where a ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled it will not initially get involved in the extradition of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany, lawyer and MP Kostis Efstathiou ...

Members of the Kurdish cultural organisation “Theophilos” staged a demonstration in the front of the justice ministry on Monday to protest the ongoing trial of Kurdish politician Kenan Ayaz. Ayaz, ...

The Kurdish Cultural Centre on Saturday called on the public to join a gathering outside the justice ministry on Monday at 11am to demonstrate against Germany’s extradition request of ...

Court proceedings in Cyprus which ordered a woman to hand over her son to be extradited to the US to be with his father in 2017, did not violate the European ...

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges, his brother said on Friday, the ...