The most distinguished of the state prisoners whom the British found there in 1878 was Subh-i-Azel

Cyprus was used by the Turks, as by their predecessors, as a place of banishment for fallen dignitaries or undesirable persons; and, as Gunnis remarks (p. 88), Famagusta became under them little more than a prison. The most distinguished of the state prisoners whom the British found there in 1878 was Subh-i-Ezel, leader of one of the two dissident Babist sects (see Luke, Anatolica, pp. 112 ff.).

(A History of Cyprus By Sir George Hill, Volume IV - The Ottoman Province, The British Colony, 1571-1948 Edited By Sir Harry Luke, p. 253)