Evagoras Pallikarides

Evagoras Pallikarides was a Greek-Cypriot poet and revolutionary who was a member of EOKA during the anticolonial 1955–1959 campaign against British rule in Cyprus. He was arrested on 18 December 1956 while transporting weaponry with his guerilla group, to which he confessed in his trial. He was sentenced to death by hanging, for firearms possession on 27 February 1957 and was the youngest fighter to be executed in Cyprus. His death generated widespread international condemnation due to his young age and the circumstances of his arrest.