Minor held with adult inmates at overcrowded Limassol centre

Fifty-eight people were being held in Limassol Police detention centres with an official capacity of just 34, with detainees sleeping on mattresses on the floor and serious shortcomings in hygiene and infrastructure.

That is the picture recorded in a new report by the National Preventive Mechanism on the facility, produced after complaints over the detention conditions of a 44-year-old Azerbaijani man accused of espionage, who is held there and represented by lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou....