Environmental activists arrested

NICOSIA - Twelve Cypriot environmentalists were arrested yesterday when they entered a firing range on the island's remote Akamas…

NICOSIA - Twelve Cypriot environmentalists were arrested yesterday when they entered a firing range on the island's remote Akamas peninsula, trying to stop British military exercises there, police said. The demonstrators were later released without charge. But another, smaller group, including a member of parliament, was still hiding at the firing range.

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