I just got back from Central Prison. I went - with my friend Kyriakos Tsimilli - to visit the Kurdish militant Kenan Ayas, a few days before the Republic of Cyprus sends the man in iron bandages to German prisons (and possibly to Turkey). The atmosphere full of dust...
FREEDOM IN CYPRUS, FREEDOM IN KURDISTAN. These words belong to our comrade Kenan Ayaz, who shouts them loudly without getting tired, during two months of unjust and illegal judicial proceedings, during which time political negotiations and transactions took place. We,...
Kurdish fighter Kenan Ayaz was arrested Thursday at Larnaca airport as he was about to travel to Austria and then Sweden to be reunited with his family. Kenan is a recognised political refugee in Cyprus and has been here for at least 13 years. His arrest at Larnaca...
With ambiguities, legalisms and communication gimmicks, the Cypriot government seeks to obscure the landscape and to bend the objections and reactions of the Cypriot society, in relation to the decision of the Cypriot judiciary to extradite the Kurdish political...
The decision of the Larnaca District Court on the case of the Kurdish militant Kenan Agias is disappointing and worrying. As it is known, Kenan Agias, a recognized political refugee who has been living in Cyprus for ten years, was arrested on the basis of a European...
letter to the Minister of Justice, Anna Koukkidou - Prokopiou, requesting her to take a position on the fate of the Kurdish fighter Kenan Ayas, was sent by MPs George Koukoumas and Kostis Efstathiou and George Perdikis and Eleni Theocharous, denouncing at the same...
The minimum form of support for the Kurdish struggle against oppression and persecution by the Turkish regime is to ask for the non-extradition to Germany of the Kurdish Kenan Ayas, who is a recognised political refugee and has been living in Cyprus for a decade. If...
The appeal filed by political refugee Kenan Ayas was unanimously rejected today by the Supreme Court, resulting in his immediate extradition to the German authorities. It is expected that following the Supreme Court's decision, Kenan Ayas will be transferred to...
His temporary cell is located above the "Imprisoned Tombs", above the cells of the EOKA fighters and especially those on death row. It was the first conversation of Ibrahim's brother as we passed through the Central Prison. Kenan repeated it in the visiting room, one...
The absolute truth is that the persecution of Kenan Ayas is political. Nothing else. Politics. What was presented against him by Germany, which issued the warrant, and Turkey, which is the first persecutor, are the pretexts and expedients that give legitimacy. The...
A Kurdish fighter, a recognized refugee to whom the Republic of Cyprus granted asylum, a man who is not accused of any criminal or terrorist act, was handed over by the Cypriot state to Germany to be tried on charges of terrorism. Some remarks on the matter: First....
As we gather - even us few - every two or three days and demonstrate in the streets and squares of Nicosia... As your relatives and friends camp outside the Supreme Court with their souls in their mouths and the rain lashing them, waiting... As in your homeland on...