Posts tagged with "Prison"

Children’s watchdog calls for end to indiscriminate pardons Cyprus

Children’s watchdog calls for end to indiscriminate pardons

October 25th, 20181043 By George Psyllides The head of a children’s watchdog on Thursday handed President Nicos Anastasiades her recommendations relating to the release of child molesters from prison on presidential pardon, mainly suggesting scrapping the practice of indiscriminate presidential pardons. Anastasia Papadopoulou, head of the council for...
Child watchdog tasked with drafting criteria for release of child molesters Cyprus

Child watchdog tasked with drafting criteria for release of child molesters

September 13th, 20181258 The head of a child watchdog has been tasked with drafting strict criteria relating to the release of convicted child molesters from prison after one was released early and returned home unbeknown to his victim, who lives in the same area, the government said on Monday. The decision came after the President Nicos Anastasiades had to...
Jail time for three beggars Cyprus

Jail time for three beggars

August 31st, 20183621 Jail sentences were handed down to three beggars on Thursday who had been arrested the day before after being spotted begging at traffic lights in Nicosia, police said. Two men, aged 46 and 31, and a woman, 47, were found by police at around 3pm Wednesday begging from drivers stopped at traffic lights in Nicosia. The three were...
UK government takes control of crisis-hit prison run by G4S Britain

UK government takes control of crisis-hit prison run by G4S

August 20th, 2018887 The British government has taken over the running of a majorprison from contractor G4S after an inspection found that staff locked themselves in offices to avoid prisoners who were using drugs and violence with near impunity. The Ministry of Justice said on Monday it had taken back the running of HMP Birmingham for an initial...
Cyprus' longest serving convict released Cyprus

Cyprus' longest serving convict released

August 3rd, 20188800 The longest-serving convict in Cyprus, Panayiotis Kafkaris, 72, who killed a man and his two children, was released on Friday after the parole board approved his request following repeated appeals. Kafkaris has served 31 years after he was given three life sentences for the premeditated murder of businessman Panicos Michael, 45, and...
Man jailed for causing road death Crime

Man jailed for causing road death

August 2nd, 20182262 Paphos district court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 18 months in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death of a young man in July 2016. The accused had been charged with dangerous and reckless driving. The accident happened in Kissonerga on July 21, 2016. The 25-year-old was driving the car that collided...
‘Intensely selfish’ driver jailed for death of five-year-old girl Cyprus

‘Intensely selfish’ driver jailed for death of five-year-old girl

July 20th, 20183358 By Evie Andreou The Larnaca district court on Friday sentenced 35-year-old Penchev Milen Stefanov to 2.5 years in prison after being found guilty of causing a fatal road accident last month that led to the death of five-year-old Maria Christina Demetriou while he was driving under the influence of drugs. Stefanov pleaded guilty...
Justice ministry says report on prevention of torture ‘positive’ Cyprus

Justice ministry says report on prevention of torture ‘positive’

April 28th, 20181699 The justice ministry said it was satisfied with the report of the European Commission on the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), regarding Cyprus, saying the conclusions noted a significant improvement. “The findings of the CPT Report states clearly the significant improvement recorded in a...
Reckless driver jailed for 18 months Crime

Reckless driver jailed for 18 months

March 6th, 20182641 A 56-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison by the Paphos district court after being found guilty of causing a fatal road accident in 2015 that claimed the life of a 47-year-old man from Limassol. The man was found guilty of causing death due to reckless behaviour. The accident occurred in August 2015 when the...
Nine years for attempted murder of stepson Cyprus

Nine years for attempted murder of stepson

February 16th, 20182116 A man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after he was convicted by the Paphos court of trying to kill his 15-year-old stepson last year. On July 6, a 19-year-old woman reported to police that at 11.40pm, her stepfather, 40, attacked her teenage brother and tried to strangle him with a rope during a fight with her mother...
Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter   Crime

Seven years for man who sexually abused stepdaughter  

February 14th, 20183179   A 36-year-old man was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for sexually abusing his stepdaughter. Nicosia criminal court found him guilty on a total of 22 charges, 11 for sexual abuse and 11 for indecent assault over incidents which took place in 2016. The girl was aged between 12 and 13 at the time. The three judges took...
Prison escapee from north could have fled across buffer zone Cyprus

Prison escapee from north could have fled across buffer zone

February 8th, 20182652 A 40-year-old man who escaped from prison in the north is believed to have fled to the government-controlled areas authorities of the breakaway regime said on Thursday. According to media reports in the north, interior ‘minister’, Aysegul Baybars, said that evidence point out that the 40-year-old prison breaker escaped to the...
Justice minister opens prison drug treatment facility Cyprus

Justice minister opens prison drug treatment facility

January 12th, 20181780 Justice Minister Ioanas Nicolaou on Friday officially opened a new facility for the rehabilitation and psychological treatment of convicted drug users. The new wing is the latest step in the ministry’s attempts to reform and modernize its central prison, after it added a mental health centre in 2014. “This is the result of the...
New training facility for prison guards opened Cyprus

New training facility for prison guards opened

December 12th, 20172161 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou inaugurated the academy for correctional officers in Nicosia on Tuesday, which he said will fill a gap as regards the training of prison guards. The academy, housed in two government buildings renovated specially, offers basic training to newly-employed prison guards while courses will also be offered...
Prisoners practising yoga FRONT PAGE

Prisoners practising yoga

October 17th, 201717200 Since 2014, Uruguay has rehabilitated inmates through the practice of yoga, thanks to the Shala Project program. Hopefully the exercise of this project will help inmates find balance within their bodies and mind, and create spaces for coexistence, tolerance and respect.
Justice officials spar as prisoners stage protest (Update 1) Cyprus

Justice officials spar as prisoners stage protest (Update 1)

September 29th, 20172760 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday he would sue former central prison director Yiorgos Tryfonides after he accused him of offering ineligible inmates presidential pardon. Tryfonides’ claims that the prison had become a ‘playground’ due to lax discipline, with inmates coming to the ‘unthinkable’ point of beating...
Police probe into prison attack reveals blunders (Updated) Cyprus

Police probe into prison attack reveals blunders (Updated)

September 28th, 20173184 Police said on Thursday they completed an administrative probe into how an inmate at Nicosia’s central prisons was deported despite facing charges of assaulting a prison guard – but questions mounted over the convoluted affair after reports that the man in question was also a suspect in a drugs-related case. On Wednesday, Akel MP...
Hospital cleaner jailed for putting urine in colleagues’ water Cyprus

Hospital cleaner jailed for putting urine in colleagues’ water

August 8th, 20172452 A 57-year-old female former cleaner at the Famagusta state hospital who was caught in 2015 adding urine to her colleagues’ drinking water was sentenced to nine months in prison on Tuesday. The woman was caught red-handed in August 2015 after the hospital’s management installed  a surveillance camera as part of efforts to...
Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10 Crime

Seven years for sexual abuse of girl aged 10

August 4th, 20174112 A 37-year-old man was sentenced by the Nicosia criminal court to six years in prison on Friday after being found guilty for sexually abusing his wife’s 10-year-old niece. The suspect, who was found guilty in 22 counts relating to sexual offences committed between May 2015 and May 2016, was sentenced to six years for sexual abuse and...
Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9 Crime

Pervert, 72, gets seven years for abusing granddaughter aged 9

July 28th, 20174383 Nicosia criminal court sentenced a 72-year-old man to seven years in jail on Friday for sexually abusing his nine-year-old granddaughter. He was found guilty by the bench majority of 40 counts relating to indecent assault and sexual abuse of a minor between June 2014 and August 2015. The girl was nine when the abuse began and there...
Convicted former mayor injured in prison football game Cyprus

Convicted former mayor injured in prison football game

July 16th, 20174617 Jailed former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas was injured on Sunday while playing football at the Nicosia Central Prisons, and was taken to hospital for treatment, reports said. According to the reports, Vergas sustained head injuries when he and another player collided while trying to head the ball He was treated at the Nicosia...
Three quarters of inmates follow educational programme Cyprus

Three quarters of inmates follow educational programme

July 11th, 20173040 Three-quarters of the inmates in the island’s only correctional facility participated in its education programme in the past year, prison governor Anna Aristotelous said on Tuesday. In the 2016-2017 academic year, 410 inmates took part, the governor said, up from 369 the previous year. “The prison schools contribute to the...
Five and a half years for drug cultivation and possession Crime

Five and a half years for drug cultivation and possession

June 15th, 20172339 The Paphos court on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to five and a half years in prison for the cultivation and possession of illegal drugs. On March 9, 2015 the drug squad found 68 cannabis plants and 8.9 kilos of cannabis in two Paphos homes. The man was arrested in the Czech Republic in connection with the case on May 17,...
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