Corpun file 7437

The Straits Times, Singapore, 27 March 1956

Cypriot youth gets the cane

LIMASSOL (Cyprus) Mon. -- Rogiros Constantinides, a 16-year-old Cypriot student, was sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane here after being arrested by his father -- a police officer.

Constantinides was convicted on two charges of being a member of an unlawful organisation and of distributing leaflets in the name of Eoka, the organisation waging terrorism in support of union with Greece.

His father is a police inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of Limassol.

Meanwhile, the curfew on Papithos village was lifted today although the inhabitants were still £200 short of the £7,000 collective fine imposed by the Governor, Sir John Harding, for a series of terrorist outbreaks in the village.

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