by Petros Heracleous | Jun 9, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
Members of the family of stateless refugees who have been demonstrating outside the Presidential Palace from the 07/04/2017 stepped up their protest to a hunger strike from the 06/06/2017. The Hassan-Janbali family are Ajanib (stateless Kurds from Syria) and have been...
by Doros Polykarpou | May 30, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
Με ομόφωνη απόφαση, το Εφετείο του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου (Η.Β.) αποφάνθηκε στις 26.05.2017[1] ότι η Υπουργός Εσωτερικών κατά το έτος 2014, Theresa May, ενήργησε παρανόμως αρνούμενη να εξετάσει το ενδεχόμενο να επιτρέψει την είσοδο στο Η.Β σε μια ομάδα προσφύγων που...
by Doros Polykarpou | May 30, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
On 26.05.2017 the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal[1] unanimously ruled that the Home Secretary of 2014, Theresa May, acted unlawfully by refusing to examine the possibility to allow the entrance of a group of refugees, which had arrived at the British Bases in Cyprus...
by Petros Heracleous | May 26, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
The Attorney General has published a letter to KISA[i], within which he fully justifies the racist and xenophobic statements of Archbishop Chrysostomos, while at the same time he makes grave accusations against our organisation. The Attorney General’s letter was his...
by Petros Heracleous | May 26, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
Ο Γενικός Εισαγγελέας έχει δημοσιοποιήσει επιστολή του προς την ΚΙΣΑ[i] με την οποία δικαιολογεί πλήρως τις ρατσιστικές και ξενοφοβικές δηλώσεις του Αρχιεπισκόπου Κύπρου Χρυσόστομου Β, αφήνοντάς την ίδια στιγμή αιχμές κατά της οργάνωσής μας. Της επιστολής του...
by Petros Heracleous | May 24, 2017 | Press Releases -main page
On one hand, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)[1] recognises that the Republic of Cyprus has undertaken positive measures, both at a legislative and a policy level; on the other hand, it observes that issues such as the combating of hate...