Unrest at migrant reception centre
Three foreign nationals were arrested on Wednesday morning at the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia and police are investigating the case on charges of damaging...
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50 people held in Menoyia detention centre stage hunger strike
Around 50 people held at the Menoyia detention centre went on hunger strike on Tuesday citing unjustified detention and a corrupt system. One of the...
Iran confirms death of blogger held on security charges
Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of a social media activist jailed on security charges, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday, after Western...
UNHCR says some members of hunger-striking Kurd family critical in hospital
The UNHCR said on Wednesday it was gravely concerned about the family of stateless Kurds from Syria who have been protesting outside the interior ministry...
Turkey begins trial of hunger striking teachers amid protests
Turkish police used tear gas to disperse protesters outside a courthouse in Ankara on Thursday at the start of the trial of two teachers who...
Film director ends hunger strike after dialogue with Kadis
Film director Panicos Chrysanthou on Tuesday ended his hunger strike which began 13 days ago as a protest over discrimination and exclusion in the field...
Filmmaker’s troubles not our fault, ministry says
The education ministry’s cultural services on Thursday denied claims of discrimination by film director Panicos Chrysanthou who went on a hunger strike over the debt...
Kurds in Limassol join wider hunger strike
Kurds residing in Limassol have started a two-day hunger strike in solidarity with Kurdish prisoners in Turkish prisons who have been on hunger strike since...
Pensioner calls off hunger strike after Hasikos assurances
Demetris Constantinou, 65, a resident of Chlorakas on Tuesday began an indefinite hunger strike outside a Paphos school because he said the government owes him...
86-day Palestinian hunger strike challenges Israeli detention policy
By Maayan Lubell A three-month hunger strike by a Palestinian journalist accused of militancy on behalf of Hamas has prompted stern questions from the United...
Lifer seeking parole asked to quit hunger strike
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou reportedly visited Cyprus’ longest-serving lifer Panayiotis Kafkaris’ on Friday after the convict began a hunger strike for another shot at parole,...
Tent of hunger striking Kurds almost washed away
Immigrant support group KISA on Tuesday called on the Cyprus government, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and civil society organisations to turn their...
‘Hunger strikers being ignored’
By Constantinos Psillides As the hunger strike at the Menoyia detention centre entered its fourth day, the 25 immigrants participating have complained that no government...
Hunger strike at Menoyia
By Constantinos Psillides AROUND 20-25 men detained at Menoyia Detention Centre went on a hunger strike on Monday, in protest over their prolonged detention. “Some...
Hunger strikers agree to resume drinking water after Hasikos promise
By Constantinos Psillides THE four recognised political refugees who are on a hunger strike will receive their final answer on their request to be granted...
Hunger strikers cut fluids too
By Staff Reporter A group of four political refugees plan to march to the interior ministry on Thursday to hand over a petition demanding they...
‘Do or die’ for protesting refugees
By Constantinos Psillides FOUR political refugees staging a hunger strike outside the UNCHR offices are determined to have their demands met or die trying, according...
Hasikos talks tough on illegal immigrants
By Constantinos Psillides INTERIOR Minister Socratis Hasikos said yesterday that illegal immigrants have no place in Cyprus and that it’s wrong to send out the...
Angry Chinese families threaten hunger strike over missing plane
By Maxim Duncan Furious Chinese families threatened on Tuesday to go on hunger strike until the Malaysian government tells them the truth about the fate of their...
Slovak woman on hunger strike outside Menoyia
By Constantinos Psillides Tatiana Chripkova, a Slovak national, went on a hunger strike on Tuesday demanding that her husband, Mahamoudou Congo, a Burkina Faso national,...