Examples might include the suicide of a refugee in 2013 after his claim for asylum was mishandled,[2] attacks on gay men and residents from other EU countries.
[3] In June 2020, the organisation was fined 10 000 € for defamation over a 2010 report which called for the Cypriot government to withdraw the appointment of Christos Clerides to the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
The organisation had accused Clerides of inciting hate against Makarios Drousiotis, a journalist investigation far-right extremism in Cyprus.
[5] Subsequently, the Executive Director of KISA, Doros Polycarpou, was arrested and charged with rioting, a police action that drew protests from human rights groups across the EU [6] as well as significant media coverage.
[8] In December 2020, the Cypriot government deregistered KISA as a charity and froze its bank accounts for missing a paperwork deadline.