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Former Disy MP Andreas Themistocleous on Saturday lost a long-running legal battle against Politis newspaper and journalist Costas Constantinou, who Themisocleous accused of libel in...
Supreme Court reserves judgment in Eleni Loizidou emails case
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would reserve its ruling to the appeal filed by daily Politis against an injunction forbidding it from...
Anastasiades accused of ‘wrong-speak’ by using term ‘illegal immigrants’
By Lizzy Ioannidou Interior minister Constantinos Petrides has come to the defence of President Nicos Anastasiades who was recently accused of racist impropriety for the...
AG vehemently denies abusing his position in land sale
By Elias Hazou ATTORNEY-GENERAL Costas Clerides on Thursday vehemently denied allegations that he abused his position by facilitating the sale of a plot of land...
Politis the latest victim of social media threats
By Lizzy Ioannidou Just days after Politis journalist Costas Constandinou received threats to his life via social media, the newspaper itself was a target of...
Journalists union condemns death threat against Politis reporter
By Evie Andreou THE union of Cyprus journalists (ESK) on Thursday condemned online threats against the life of Politis newspaper’s journalist Costas Constantinou, after a post on...
AG won’t prosecute journos over leaked state attorney’s emails
Attorney-general Costas Clerides announced on Tuesday there will be no prosecutions against journalists over the publication of leaked emails belonging to a senior state attorney....
OSCE concerned over gag order in Lozidou case
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir expressed concern on Tuesday over a recent court decision prohibiting daily Politis from publishing documents concerning...
AG says media persecution claims are just hype
By George Psyllides and Peter Michaels Attorney-general Costas Clerides on Friday rubbished claims by some media that the police probe into the leaked emails of...
Police hauling in journalists over Loizidou’s leaked emails
POLICE have been questioning reporters from Phileleftheros newspaper over the leaked emails of a senior state attorney who used her personal account to correspond with...
Our View: Newspaper injunction in Loizidou case makes no sense
AS WE had written here last week, when it comes to personal data protection common sense goes out the window. This principle has become sacred...
‘Press freedom limited by Loizidou injunction’
The injunction against daily newspaper Politis preventing it from publishing leaked emails from suspended state attorney Eleni Loizidou’s email account serves no purpose other than...
Suspended state attorney suing Politis for as much as €2m over publication of emails
By Evie Andreou Suspended senior state attorney Eleni Loizidou is suing daily Politis seeking damages of between €500,000 and €2m, claiming that the media outlet breached her...
Nicolaou: collective cooperation needed to stamp out police corruption
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Sunday it would take collective cooperation to stamp out corruption in the police and this would need to involve...
CMP to investigate tip-off that remains of Greek Cypriot missing were moved to Assia
By Angelos Anastasiou The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will commence the procedure to verify a tip by daily Politis regarding a site near occupied...
Vgenopoulos lashes out at ‘media mudslingers’
By Angelos Anastasiou FORMER Laiki bank boss Andreas Vgenopoulos said on Monday that local daily Politis and Greek online news portal Kouti Tis Pandoras (‘Pandora’s...
Dispute over law firms’ earnings from BoC
Daily Politis and the Tassos Papadopoulos & Associates law firm have become embroiled in a tussle over the publication of official documents showing that the...
AKEL-Politis war of words continues
By George Psyllides A WAR of words between main opposition AKEL and Politis newspaper continued on Saturday over a libel suit filed by the party...
AKEL sues ‘over loss of supporters’ Politis says
By George Psyllides MAIN opposition AKEL has sued a newspaper over allegations that the party had received €1.5 million from a company allegedly linked with...
Onoufriou claims police were planning to murder him
By Angelos Anastasiou Former convict Andreas Onoufriou, who remains on the lam for the third day despite an ongoing islandwide search operation by the police,...