#irregular migrants

A 44-year-old man accused of having captained a boat which brought 22 irregular migrants to Cyprus was remanded in custody for six days on Saturday. The boat was intercepted off the ...

People smugglers “are advertising voyages to Cyprus on social media”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. Speaking to mukhtars, he said the phenomenon of smugglers setting sail from Lebanon ...

The Famagusta district court on Friday remanded a 21-year-old man for seven days to facilitate police investigations regarding the arrival of a boat carrying 25 irregular migrants on Thursday. According to ...

A 44-year-old man was arrested on Friday afternoon to assist police investigations regarding the arrival of a total of 22 irregular migrants on a boat off Cape Greco earlier in the ...

A total of four migrant boats were spotted off the coast of Cape Greco at around midday on Friday, according to reports. The first was brought ashore at the Golden ...

Police must crack down on migrant smuggling networks, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Thursday, amidst a surge in arrivals. Over a dozen boats from Lebanon have reached Cyprus’ shores ...

The government may begin sending migrants to army camps across Nicosia if arrivals do not slow down, it emerged on Thursday. Currently, over 1,300 people are at Pournara reception centre with ...

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 “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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...