Lawyers acting on behalf of former state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos on Friday sent a letter to President Nikos Christodoulides claiming his rights had been violated when he appealed a court ruling that conscript Thanasis Nicolaou had been strangled to death in 2005.
Stavrianos had found at the time that Nicolaou had committed suicide, but a Limassol district court ruling in May found that he had been strangled. Stavrianos then appealed
