A MAN was beaten and abused by a member of the police for a crime he didn’t even commit, the police complaints authority has found.
The revelation was made by the president of the Independent Authority for the Investigation of Complaints and Claims against the Police, Yiannakis Agapiou, who yesterday met with House President Marios Garoyian.
A 40-YEAR-old Limassol woman and her two young children were recently forced to leave home after police ignored a restraining order against her paedophile husband.
THE COUNCIL of Europe’s special committee on torture has wrapped up its visit to Cyprus following a meeting with the ministers of justice and interior yesterday.
THE NICOSIA Municipality is inviting the capital’s residents to share their opinions on how to solve the city’s problems in a series of public consultation meetings to be held over the next month.
A TEAM of Scotland Yard officers yesterday arrived on the island to investigate a scam involving stolen luxury cars, police said.
According to reports the scam involves double registering the chassis number of cars imported to Cyprus from the UK.
A COMMITTEE is to be set up to establish whether young Cypriot footballers and other sportsmen do not have to give up their sports careers to do military service.
The committee is to look at ways in which a compromise formula can be found so that the young men could still pursue their chosen sport and do their army at the same time.
THE MTN Group has announced that in a series of stages it will dispose of 50 per cent of its shareholding in Areeba Limited, trading as MTN Cyprus, to Amaracos Holding (CTC&PG) Limited.
Amaracos is a company owned by Shacolas Group’s Cyprus Trading Corporation (51 per cent), and Germanos Cyprus Ltd (49 per cent).
ALL POLITICAL parties bar ruling AKEL yesterday rallied behind calls to import compressed natural gas (CNG).
DISY, DIKO and EDEK deputies spoke out in favour of the possibility of importing CNG instead of liquid natural gas (LNG), which, according to expert estimations, will not be ready until 2015.
AN EMPLOYEE of a parcel-delivery company was robbed by a hooded attacker, while making his daily delivery to a bank on Amanthus Avenue in Limassol, police said yesterday.
OZDIL Nami, the adviser to Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on the working groups and technical committees, said their mandate was not to negotiate positions but to outline them.
In an interview with Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzen, Nami outlined the differing interpretations that each side has of the process, which has led to difficulties.
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