Police in Cyprus have arrested an individual on suspicion of terror-related offences and spying on an RAF air base.
The individual appeared before a district court on the island today, and was made the subject of an eight-day detention pending inquiries. No further details will be released at this time, police said, citing national security.
Several Cypriot news outlets reported the suspect was a man of Azeri ethnic descent and had been arrested in the Zakaki suburb of the coastal city of Limassol. The suspect was thought to have had a British RAF military base in nearby Akrotiri under surveillance, as well as Cyprus’s own Andreas Papandreou Air Base in the western region of Paphos since mid-April, Cyprus’s ANT1 news portal reported.