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Cyprus Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights 2022 Cyprus, Commissioner for administration and human rights/Self-initiated position of the Commissioner for Administration and Human Rughts regarding the attacks against foreign delivers of cooked food, Ref. AYT.1/2022 Race/Ethnicity Third country nationals In February 2022 a video was circulated on social media showing a group of teenagers attacking migrant delivery workers in the centre of Nicosia. The Ombudsperson issued a statement in relation to this attack, calling on the Ministry of Education to intensify its efforts in offering seminars and trainings to children in primary education so that when they grow up they will not harbour sentiments of hate; and on the police to intensify its efforts to investigate the incident, encouraging people… View more
Cyprus Cyprus Media Complaints Commission 2021 Cyprus/Cyprus Media Complaints Commission/ Racist discourse and discrimination, Complaint no. 12/2021, 29 June 2021. Race/Ethnicity Muslims A teacher filed a complaint to the Cyprus Media Complaints Commission against the newspaper 'Alithia' for its front page article on 16.3.21 entitled 'Help us Minister, do as you did in Chloraka'. The article stated that in the village of Droushia the number of Syrian children exceeds that of Cypriot children and called on the Interior Minister to ban the settlement of more migrants in the area. View more
Cyprus Commissioner for administration and human rights and NHRI (Ombudsperson) 2021 Cyprus, Commissioner for administration and human rights/Public Statement of the Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights regarding the respect for religious freedom and cultural heritage, Ref. AYT. 6/2021 Religion Muslims A self-initiated position paper published by the Ombuds institution, following the vandalism of a mosque in the village of Episkopi. The paper refers to a party held in an Armenian Monastery and the theft of doors at a monastery both in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus, describing those incidents as similar to the vandalism of the mosque with anti-turkish slogans. The paper underlines the need to respect religious rights amd strengthen mutual respect for religious traditions and cultural… View more
Cyprus Dstrict Court of Nicosia 2021 Cyprus/District Court of Nicosia/Djemil Cufi v Republic of Cyprus, No. 4193/08, 27 January 2021, ECLI:CY:EDLEF:2021:A48. Race/Ethnicity Muslims A Turkish Cyprus submitted an application to Court challenging the refusal of the Republic to permit the sale of her property to a third party. The status of Turkish Cypriots properties in the territory controlled by the Republic is regulated by the institution of the ‘Guardian of Turkish Cypriot properties’, who administers the properties of Turkish Cypriots, seen by the law as ‘abandoned’. The claimant sought an order from the Court enabling her to sell her property without permission from… View more
Cyprus Commissioner for the protection of children's rights 2021 Cyprus/ Commissioner for the protection of children's rights/Public Statement by the Commissioner for the Protection of Children's Rights, regarding the statements of the Government Spokesperson, dated 10/11/2021. Race/Ethnicity Third country nationals After the end of a high-level meeting at the Presidential Palace on immigration, the government spokesperson issued the following official statement: "The most important thing that proves the critical nature of the problem [of immigration] is the data concerning pupils of immigrant background: in pre-primary education the number of such pupils exceeds 30% of the total, while in primary education it amounts to 16%". The Commissioner for the rights of the child issued a public statement… View more
Cyprus Commissioner for administration and human rights (Ombudsperson) 2021 Cyprus, Commissioner for administration and human rights/Position of the Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights Protection on rhetoric promoting racism and xenophobia and the specific implications of such rhetoric when developed on the internet, File no. Α.Κ.R. 62/2017, Α/P 161/2019, Α/P 557/2019, Α/P 588/2019,
Α/P 1798/2019, Α/P 1803/2019 Α/P 271/2020, Α/P 1252/2020
Nationality Third country nationals The Ombudsperson published a document setting out the framework on hate speech, with reference to a collaboration launched with ODIHR. A number of complaints examined by the Ombudsperson in previous years were set out, mostly dealing with racist comments against third country nationals, mainly asylum seekers and refugees for welfare benefits they are receiving. The paper presented the legal framework of the Council of Europe and ECtHR jurisprudence on hate speech, freedom of expression and its… View more
Cyprus Media Complaints Commission 2020 Cyprus / Media Complaints Commission, «Απόφαση εναντίον της εφημερίδας 'Αλήθεια' για δημοσίευμα με τίτλο: ‘Τρίτος Αττίλας στην Κύπρο!’, ημ. 27/01/2020» (Decision against the newspaper 'Alithia’ for the article entitled ‘Third Attila in Cyprus!’ of 27/01/2020) Complaint No. 06/27/01/20, 17 May 2020. Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, Religion Refugees & asylum seekers The Media Complaints Commission examined a complaint against the national daily newspaper “Alithia” for an article entitled “Third Attila in Cyprus” published in January 2020. The article referred to migrants and refugees whom it resembled with the Turkish invasion of 1974, which had received the code name ‘Operation Attila’ and included phrases like “we are sinking” and “we cannot stand them any more”. It also included false data on the number of asylum seekers, whom it recorded as 43,000… View more
Cyprus Cyprus Media Complaints Commission 2020 Cyprus / Media Complaints Commission, “Complaint against the newspaper ‘Simerini’” (Παράπονο εναντίον της εφημερίδας «Σημερινή»), Complaint No. 08/02/02/20, 17 May 2020. Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, Religion Refugees & asylum seekers Τhe Media Complaints Commission examined a complaint against the national daily newspaper ‘Simerini’ for three articles published on 2 February 2020 under the titles: (1) ‘Immigration sinks Cyprus’, (2) ‘Explosion of Immigration’ and (3) ‘Turkish games with refugee flows’. The complaint argued that the article attempts to spread fear and xenophobia with false data about the numbers and unproven allegations about flows directed and manipulated by Turkey. View more
Cyprus Cyprus Media Complaints Commission 2020 Cyprus / Media Complaints Commission, “Complaint against Sigma TV ‘Noon Plus’ on 22 January 2020” (Παράπονο εναντίον του Sigma TV «Μεσημέρι κ κάτι» στις 22 Ιανουαρίου 2020), Complaint No. 07/27/01/20, 17 Μay 2020. Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, Religion Refugees & asylum seekers The complaint argued that during a televised interview with the Interior Minister, the interviewing journalist expressed the position that the numbers of migrants are such that Cyprus cannot bear them, which is not grounded on facts and is disputed by experts. In addition to being inaccurate, the statement carried the risk of spreading racism and xenophobia. The complaint added that the journalist failed to react when the Interior Minister said on air that migrants and refugees come to Cyprus… View more
Cyprus District Court of Nicosia (Επαρχιακό Δικαστήριο Λευκωσίας) 2019 Cyprus / District Court of Nicosia/ Case No. 775/2018, Nicosia Police Director v. XXX Merkouri Race/Ethnicity Migrants In 2016 the complainant who is the father of two adopted children from Asia posted the children’s photos on Facebook. The defendant comment on Facebook that the complainant was ‘stupid’ to have adopted children from Asia. The complainant filed a complained to the Commissioner for the rights of the child who, in turn, filed a report to the police. After eight months the police invited the defendant for a statement. She admitted having posted the comments but denied that there was any racist… View more
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