Our View: Is Cyprus doing enough to fight gender-based violence?

Police Chief Themistos Arnaoutis said on Monday that 18,409 cases of violence against women had been reported from 2021to June 2026. He was speaking at the House human rights committee, which was discussing the issue after a policeman last week shot his wife, who remains in critical condition, and then killed himself. A few days before this murder attempt, a 38-year-old woman and her 58-year-old mother were seriously injured by the younger woman’s ex-husband. Between 2020 and 2025 there have...