A meeting to be chaired by President Nicos Anastasiades on the situation in the prisons after the damning statements made by the attorney general against management has been cancelled, deputy government spokeswoman Niovi Parisinou announced on Wednesday.
The meeting was meant to take place a 6:30pm and be headed by the president.
Attorney general George Savvides, the president, Justice Minister Stephie Dracou, and prisons director Anna Aristotelous were all meant to take part, following a damning report about mobile phone and drug trade in the jail.
Parisinou said that the meeting was cancelled, after Aristotelous tested positive for Covid-19.
On Monday, Aristotelous’ lawyer said there is a clear attempt to mislead public opinion and undermine the director of the central prison, after she reported police corruption.
Pambos Ioannides was speaking following a damning statement from the attorney general’s office last week which referred to the management of the Nicosia central prisons as inadequate and ineffective. Later in the day, the prison director herself also denounced the AG’s announcement as an effort to damage her image and work in the department.
The lawyer did not comment on the content of the AG announcement but claimed it was an effort to fragment the directorate of the department. He implied there have been unreasonable delays into the investigation of a complaint filed by the prison director and senior unit officer Athina Demetriou.
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