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The government was given\u00a0until the beginning of 2026 to open a juvenile detention centre\u00a0by the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\nThe government was given\u00a0until the beginning of 2026 to open a juvenile detention centre\u00a0by the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Committee chairman Nikos Tornaritis said the plans to create a new centre have \u201cnot been satisfied to date,\u201d and that as a result, young offenders will continue to be held in a separate area of the central prison until the end of 2025.\u201cFor this reason, with regret\u2026 parliament will proceed to extend the legislation for another two years until the point at which a place is found to keep incarcerated minors,\u201d he said.He also spoke on the matter of the central prison, saying \u201cthe time has come for the state to\u00a0seriously consider moving and relocating the central prison to a place which is not adjacent to residential areas.\u201dHe added that the government should \u201cbuild modern facilities\u201d.\u201cPrison facilities are antiquated, they are historic, and obviously they can be used for many other purposes, but not as prisons,\u201d he said.He said the prison\u2019s capacity is supposed to be 545 people, but that at present it houses a total of 1,100 inmates.\u201cThis in itself exposes the Republic of Cyprus internationally and\u00a0most definitely violates basic human rights,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe must know very well that prisoners also have human rights.\u201dHe also spoke on the matter of building new District courts in Nicosia and said he had spoken with Public Works Minister Alexis Vafeades on the matter.\u201cWe exchanged views, and the government also agrees. This is positive. Things should proceed immediately,\u201d he said.Follow the
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The government of Cyprus has been given a deadline until the beginning of 2026 to open a juvenile detention center, as mandated by the House legal affairs committee. The committee chairman, Nikos Tornaritis, expressed dissatisfaction with the current progress and announced that young offenders would remain in a separate area of the central prison until the end of 2025. Tornaritis also highlighted the need to consider relocating the central prison away from residential areas and to build modern facilities, noting the prison’s current overcapacity and its implications for human rights. Additionally, discussions have taken place regarding the construction of new District courts in Nicosia, with a positive agreement from the government to proceed immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[997,476,21,3,538,250,415,115,582,998,406,120,131,657,409],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-borstal","tag-central-prison","tag-crime","tag-cyprus","tag-district-courts","tag-google","tag-government","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-juvenile-detention","tag-nicosia","tag-picks4","tag-prison","tag-prisons","tag-vafeades"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n