
A solidarity gathering was held on Wednesday outside the central prisons in Nicosia, calling for the immediate release of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz. Supporters demanded his freedom either through a presidential pardon or early release, arguing he has already served much of his sentence in Germany and Cyprus.

Ayaz was recently transferred to the open prison section of the central prisons. His lawyer, Efstathios Efstathiou, told the Cyprus News Agency