Commissioner concerned over prolonged detentions in police cells

Human rights commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Friday expressed concern that third country nationals who are detained in Cyprus due to not having the requisite residence documents are often subject to “prolonged administrative detention” in police holding cells.

She said during a meeting with the Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture that it had been found that people had been left in holding cells in Larnaca and Limassol for as long as six months....