New migrant boat arrives at Cape Greco
A boat with 20 irregular migrants on board was detected off the coast of Cape Greco by the police on Sunday.
Police and an ambulance rushed to the coast to carry ...
Cyprus is ‘European champion of migrant returns’ (Updated)
Cyprus is “emerging as a European champion of returns” of migrants, European commission vice president Margaritis Schinas said on Friday.
Schinas visited the island to meet members of the Cypriot ...
More remanded for people smuggling
Two more young men have been remanded as suspects for people smuggling close to 500 migrants, the Famagusta District Court said on Friday.
For the case surrounding the arrival of six ...
Six men now arrested for mass smuggling of migrants
Famagusta District Court have remanded another two Syrian men, 29 and 27, who were arrested on Wednesday as people smuggling suspects, following the arrival of six boats a few days ago with ...
Further remands for huge people smuggling operation (Updated)
Two people aged 33 and 27 were remanded for eight days on Wednesday after they were arrested to facilitate police investigations into a case involving the attempted illegal entry of a total ...
Two remanded after almost 500 migrants arrive (updated)
Two men suspected of people smuggling were remanded for eight days on Tuesday by the Famagusta District Court.
The two men, 41 and 23, were found on a sixth boat of migrants ...
Three years in jail for people smuggler
A 34-year-old man convicted of smuggling 34 people into Cyprus was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday.
The man captained a nine-metre-long boat which was intercepted by police off ...
Two remanded after 147 migrants arrive from Lebanon
Two men were remanded at Famagusta district court on Saturday, in connection with two boats which reached Cape Greco carrying 147 migrants.
During questioning, the migrants identified the two men, aged 19 ...
Irregular migrants spotted off Cape Greco
A total of 33 irregular migrants were spotted by the police on Thursday evening in the area of Cape Greco, located in the Famagusta district.
Specifically, at 9.30pm, the coastal police ...
Irregular migrants arrive off Cape Greco
Dozens of irregular migrants arrived by boat in Cyprus on Wednesday, police announced.
A 21-year-old man, suspected of steering one of the two vessels that landed in Cavo Greco, was ...
Migrant boats escorted ashore near Ayia Napa
Authorities on Thursday evening escorted ashore two boats with irregular migrants on board, according to reports.
The Sigma news outlet said the two boats – with an as yet undisclosed number ...
Irregular migrant applications plummet by 46 per cent
Cyprus recorded a notable decrease in irregular migrant applications of 46 per cent and a 66 per cent increase in returns last year, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday.
The minister ...
Parts of Syria are safe, interior ministry insists
Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou plans to “promote a discussion” on declaring parts of Syria as safe upon his visit to Brussels for an informal meeting of EU interior ministers on ...
Search for migrant missing at sea continues (Updated)
Authorities on Monday were looking for a migrant for the second day in a row to no avail, after he jumped into the sea.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Center told ...
Jail for people smugglers
Two men, who had helped steer boats with irregular migrants last October, were sentenced to two and half years in prison for people smuggling, the Larnaca District Court ruled on ...
Two men sentenced to prison for migrant smuggling
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 ...
EU agrees new rules on hosting migrants, seeks to cut numbers
The European Union reached agreement on Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people ...
Over 100 irregular migrants detected off Cape Greco
A total of 102 irregular migrants were detected on three separate boats off the coast of Cape Greco on Tuesday.
The first boat was spotted at 2:15pm around 10 nautical miles off ...
Wooden boat with 54 migrants aboard intercepted off Cape Greco
A wooden boat with 54 irregular migrants on board was intercepted by police seven nautical miles off the coast of Cape Greco on Saturday.
Of the 54, 13 were children, seven of whom ...
Five issued eight-day remands for facilitating illegal arrivals into Cyprus
Five people were issued with eight-day remands in custody at the Famagusta district court on Thursday, accused of facilitating the illegal arrival of 210 people into Cyprus.
The five, of whom ...
Asylum-seekers in Greece face violence, pushbacks – Doctors without Borders
Asylum-seekers arriving in Greece face physical violence including being beaten and sent back to sea, Doctors without Borders said on Thursday, calling on Greece to increase migrant search and rescue ...
Boat carrying 50 migrants arrives off Cape Greco coast
Another boat with 50 migrants arrived off the coast of Cape Greco on Thursday, with the people on board safely escorted ashore.
According to media reports, the police coast guard spotted ...
Authorities on alert as ‘hundreds’ of Syrian refugees expected from Lebanon (Updated)
Coastal authorities were on alert on Tuesday following information that a boat with 95 irregular migrants was the first of an organised wave of hundreds of further arrivals.
Interior Minister Constantinos ...
Relocation operation of Chlorakas migrants completed (update 3)
The relocation operation of migrants housed in the troubled Ayios Nikolaos apartment complex in Chlorakas has been completed Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday.
The ...