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Gavin Blackburn

Cyprus sentences Syrian national for bringing migrants to country on overloaded boat

A Cyprus court has sentenced a Syrian national to five years in prison for helping 31 Syrian migrants reach the Mediterranean island nation on board an overloaded boat, the attorney general's office has said.

The office said in a statement that the Syrian man, himself a migrant, was convicted on three charges including people trafficking and aiding migrants to enter Cyprus.

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