
The politics of Anastasiades-Christodoulides ‘have sank freedom of the press’ read the banner headline on the front page of Monday’s Haravghi . Proof that the current president and his predecessor were to blame was the fact that Cyprus was 16 th in the World Press Freedom Index in 2012 while in 2025 it has fallen to 77 th place, behind countries such as Congo and Senegal, which are not renowned