Procopiou meets scientists to boost forensic technology
Justice Minister Anna Procopiou met with scientists from the forensic laboratory of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Cing) on Monday with the aim...
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Speculation grows about police chief replacement (Updated)
President Nikos Christodoulides said that he has nothing to announce just yet as to the possible appointment of a new police chief, as speculation grew...
Minister attends religions commercialisation symposium
Economic interests have transformed faith into a marketable commodity making it challenging to balance between the need for financial support and preservation of religious values,...
Cyprus and Lebanon solidify friendship in joint effort against forest fires
Cyprus and Lebanon stand by each other in fighting forest fires, officials of the two countries said during a ceremony held on Thursday. Cypriot authorities...
Justice minister wants LGBTI stigmatisation addressed
Cyprus needs to address the rhetoric that stigmatises, targets, and victimises members of the LGBTI community, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou has said. The minister...
Interests are behind reactions to changes promoted by the government, justice minister says
Resistance to reforms and changes promoted comes from the effort to protect specific interests but the government will not succumb to such pressures, Justice Minister...
Psychiatric department under strain at prisons
Understaffing and a lack of interest have left the prisons psychiatric department without fulltime employees for the past year, the justice ministry said on Tuesday,...
State has archived 18.5km of documents
In its 45 years of operation, the state archive has preserved records that fill almost 20 kilometres of shelves with information from the public and...
Proposals being sent to president on decongesting prisons
Proposals from the justice ministry to decongest prisons will be sent to the president next week, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Friday. “The president...
Justice Minister and Kazakhstan ambassador discuss bilateral agreements
Justice Minister Anna Procopiou on Tuesday met the ambassador of Kazakhstan Satybaldy Burshakov, with whom she discussed, among other things, the bilateral agreements between the...
