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Background
The Cyprus internment camps were camps maintained in Cyprus by the British government for the internment of Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. There were a total of 12 camps, which operated from August 1946 to January 1949, and in total held 53,510 Jews.
Britain informed the UN that it would no longer administer the Mandate for Palestine on February 14, 1947. This prompted the UN General Assembly to recommend partition of Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states on November 29. Some
28,000 Jews were still interned in the camps when the Mandate was dissolved, partition was enacted, and the independent State of Israel was established at midnight local time
on May 14, 1948.
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Known issues
The European Court of Human Rights has issued multiple judgments concerning Cyprus and Turkey. In Guezelyurtlu and Others v. Cyprus and Turkey (Grand Chamber, 2019), the Court found a violation of Article 2 (right to life, procedural aspect) by Turkey. In Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia (2010), the Court found violations of Articles 2, 4, and 5 by Cyprus.
