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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Nicosia

How David Hunter’s trial has forced Cyprus to confront euthanasia

David Hunter with his defence team and barrister Michael Polak outside court in Cyprus
David Hunter, second from left, with his defence team, right, and Michael Polak, the director of Justice Abroad. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

A little after daybreak, a police van carrying an elderly Briton pulled out of the high-walled, colonial-era complex that is Nicosia’s central prison.

As on so many other occasions, it was the start of a journey David Hunter knew well: a near 100-mile road trip that would take the septuagenarian to the only other building he has been permitted to visit over the past 19 months – the district court in the coastal town of Paphos.

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