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4 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 20 DECEMBER 2020 NEWS UK Residency Document UK nationals and their family members who were residing in Malta before BREXIT as well as those who have already settled here thereafter and also those who will be settling here by 31 st December 2020 need to apply for their new residency document before 30 th June 2021. UK beneficiaries who have not yet applied should send an email to brexit.ima@gov.mt (Malta Office) or eresidence-brexit.mgoz@gov.mt (Gozo Office) to set an appointment. IDENTITY MALTA would like to inform the general public that on 26/12/20 02/01/21 All Units will be closed In case of emergency passport service please call +356 7947 3656 Identity Malta Agency, Valley Road, Msida MSD 9020 OPENING HOURS IDENTITY MALTA AGENCY Valley Road, Msida. MSD 9020 T: +356 2590 4000 W: www.identitymalta.com E: enquiries@identitymalta.com KARL AZZOPARDI THE director of prisons Alex Dalli is denying reports recieved by MaltaToday that he placed a long-term inmate on a restraint chair in the middle of the Cor- radino prison's central hall to quash the prisoner's protests. The career criminal Alfred Bugeja, known as 'il-Porporina', was said to have been strapped to the infamous restraint chair, multiple sources who spoke to MaltaToday have confirmed. Bugeja is serving a 31-year pris- on sentence. Lt Col. Alex Dalli has categor- ically denied the allegations, in- sisting they are "not true and are based on unfounded claims." He said the only purpose of such allegations was to "further sensationalize the issue". But questions on whether the decision to restrain Bugeja was handed down by a medical pro- fessional went unanswered. The prison administration has recently come under fire follow- ing reports that inmates were being bound to a chair as a form of punishment and humiliation. Home affairs minister Byron Camilleri has since refuted the existence of the 'punishment chair' but said that a prisoner was once tied to a chair upon a doctor's recommendation. Article 69 of the prison regu- lations states that handcuffs, re- straint-jackets and other body restraints shall not be applied as a punishment. But witnesses to the event told MaltaToday that the restraint chair has a steel frame with re- straints for the inmate's head, Corradino inmate strapped to restraint chair, director denies Prison director Alex Dalli denies allegation that Alfred Bugeja was strapped to chair in middle of cell block for 45 minutes