A 23-year-old Syrian national, identified as Abdul Kader Almfalani, currently serving a sentence at Nicosia central prison, has died, police confirmed on Saturday.
He was reportedly due to be released within a few days.
Officers were informed at around 2.15am by the prison authorities that Almfalani had been found in his cell without any signs of life.
He was taken by ambulance to Nicosia general hospital, where he was pronounced
