Deportations of foreign nationals planned to ease prison overcrowding

Inmates of the central prison who have committed minor crimes could be released before serving their full sentence due to the facility’s overcrowding crisis, the government said on Tuesday.

“All foreign nationals who are in central Prisons and whose conviction does not concern serious crimes will be deported or returned to their countries of origin, and will be placed on the stop list to be banned from entering the Republic of Cyprus,” President Nikos Christodoulides wrote in a post on Twitter.