21.   Prison governors are seeking a meeting with Home Secretary David Blunkett to put their case.

22.   Central prison governor George Anastassiades said the Israelis would be deported from Cyprus aboard a flight to Tel Aviv on Sunday.

23.   The paper said the former US Air Force base at Woodbridge, southern England, would be run by prison governors but guarded by Ministry of Defence police.

24.   Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic-Marinovic sacked the prison governor Mario Vcelik for failing to obtain a psychiatric report before giving Mladjan a weekend pass, the ministry said.

25.   Meanwhile on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, mutineers surrendered after freeing the prison governor and three wardens whom they had seized the previous evening.

26.   Mutinying prisoners on the eastern Aegean island of Chios released the prison governor and three wardens whom they had taken hostage the evening before, police said.

27.   Mutinying prisoners on the eastern Aegean island of Chios on Tuesday released the prison governor and three wardens whom they had taken hostage the evening before, police said.

28.   Prison governor John Lonergan was involved in the negotiations, assisted by officials from the justice ministry and penal services.

29.   Prison governor Salah Mohammad told AFP that the only people still locked up were hardened criminals such as murderers and rapists.

30.   The mass release follows new instructions sent to prison governors last week, following a number of court cases last year when inmates challenged the length of their sentences.