#Nicosia prison

The trial of seven people who stand accused of forming an alleged criminal syndicate which engaged in drug trafficking, running a protection racket, and illegal gambling will begin at the ...

Authorities were on Tuesday still investigating the case of the unlawful transfer from the central prisons of thousands of documents – marked as ‘confidential’ or ‘secret’ – with five suspects still in ...

Five individuals arrested on Thursday in connection with an ongoing investigation into official documents found at the home of a prison warden were remanded for seven days on Friday by ...

Authorities on Thursday arrested five persons – four prison wardens and a female police cadet – in connection with an ongoing investigation into documents found in the residence of a prison warden ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Wednesday called for an end to the practice of police carrying out searches of prisons and prisoners without informing them as to the ...

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for setting fire to the house he was living in on September 26 in Nicosia. Police said the man ...

A drone illegally delivered two packages into the central prison on Sunday night. Prison guards spotted the drone between 10pm and 11pm, and witnessed it fly into the prison’s ...

A 79-year-old prisoner died on Wednesday. The man had been in hospital since April 24 with what the prisons department described as “chronic serious medical problems”. The prisons department expressed its “...

Police caught a Syrian man who escaped from the central prisons on Friday, two hours after his escape. The man was caught around 3pm, after he escaped the prison following ...

A criminal court on Thursday sentenced a man to six years in prison, having earlier found him guilty on the charge of possessing child pornography. The decision was handed down ...

Police carried out a raid at the central prisons in the early hours of Wednesday, according to police spokesperson Christos Andreou. “The raid was carried out as part of an ...

A car with tinted windows opened fire in broad daylight in Nicosia on Friday, close to the central prisons. Police were at the scene at the Ayios Andreas area in ...

A 58-year-old prison guard who was arrested in possession of drugs while driving to his shift has been suspended from his post, media reported on Wednesday. This concerns the second ...

A total of 74 prisoners were granted a presidential pardon ahead of Christmas and will have a chance to reunite with their families, it emerged on Saturday. The presidential pardon is ...

A 45-year-old prison guard, who was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the police in connection with a drug smuggling case at the central prisons, was apprehended on ...

The attorney-general’s office on Thursday welcomed as “very important” a recent judgement by the administrative court upholding the action by the parole board to revoke a prior decision of ...

Ioannis Kapnoullas is officially taking over the role of acting prison director until June 2026, it emerged on Saturday. He was appointed as acting prison director in January this year. He ...

The new public service post of the former prison director Anna Aristotelous will be announced next week, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Thursday. Aristotelous is transferring to “an important ...

A 22-year-old man serving time at the central prisons in Nicosia was taken to the hospital on Friday after he tried to end his life. He was found by staff ...

Decisions on the issue of the prisons’ directorate are expected soon as prison director Anna Aristotelous, on sick leave since January, renewed her leave of absence while her replacement’s ...

Murdered Turkish Cypriot inmate Tansu Cidan was tortured for two days until he was killed, suffering injuries all over his body, according to court hearings on Thursday. The state’s ...

It was evident from the onset that the legal service was going to go out of its way to defend the actions of drug-squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, lawyers for prison ...

Anna Aristotelous and assistant Athena Demetriou on Wednesday evening announced their departure from their posts at the central prisons following the Attorney-General’s (AG) decision earlier in the day not ...

There has been no evidence to support corruption claims against the drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, after he was accused of colluding with a convict in the central prisons, the ...