This case will just destroy all relations between The UK and Cypeua and for that Cyprus will be sorry

[£80k raised for rape claim Briton
as mum backs Cyprus boycott
It comes as the girl's mother says
she supports calls on social media
for a tourist boycott of the country.

The GoFundMe page was set up by
British lawyer John Hobbs in August
to help the 19-year-old raise funds
for legal representation.
The young woman had said she
was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists
in a hotel room in the town of
Ayia Napa on 17 July.
But she was charged after she
signed a retraction statement
10 days after the incident.

In court, she claimed
Cypriot police
pressured her to change her
account of what happened but
she was convicted of public mischief.]


Good on the mother.

https://news.sky.com/story/80k-raise...claim-11898874

Would a British lawyer be advocating such actions if there wasn't the slightest hint of injustice?
Surely they would be strongly suggesting she accept the judgement :/

Closed for cleaning :nono:

It won't do ****. Countries allow for a lot of terrible **** to happen to it's citizens abroad but there's rarely political action because it's not ultimately worth losing an ally for in their eyes.

The most they'll ever do 99% of the time is voice their displeasure and hope that the media applies pressure on their behalf so that they can advise the country in question to deport the prisoner instead. The UK would never cut ties with Cyprus over something like this. It's completely naive to think that they would.

To be fair though, if the campaigning is strong enough it might hit tourism to Cyprus and they rely heavily on it. In fact, protecting the tourism industry is a huge part of why their corrupt police and courts systems like to pretend that the bulk of crime, especially violent crime, "didn't happen". Gang rapes are bad for the tourist dollar so... she made it up. I don't think they expected it to get the sort of publicity it has, though.

Well, I know I'd be persuading my 19 year old daughter to stay away from there after hearing this story (thankfully she's not really into those sort of holidays anyway)

Good call, this story has exposed a lot of dodgy **** about Cyprus' law system. I will never go there after hearing this story myself.

I mean to be fair-ish to Ayia Napa, none of these party-holiday destinations or much better than the others when it comes to these things. Riddled with predators, whether they be seeking something or selling something. I really HOPE my daughter never wants to go on that sort of holiday, because then I'll have to be there like
https://media1.tenor.com/images/0ab6...49ad/tenor.gif

:laugh:

Maybe best if a man of your age isn't seen loitering in bushes in these places TS

RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus is an important base in the Middle East. We can't just stomp off in a huff, we have to get them to take a good, hard look at themselves.

The xenophobic undercurrent for Cyprus is rather distasteful on here...

I'll use drones.

It's never a good idea to bootlick police forces with question marks over their conduct, you don't know where they've been.

Unquestioning adherence to the findings of every police force in the world. Sorry... every force in the world except the Portuguese, they're full of NONSENSE that poor woman.

...it’s 2020 and it’s so, so sad that it’s still so difficult for a female to gain belief that she has been raped...and yet, belief that she hasn’t, seems to come so much easier...I don’t know what the truth of this is...but some public resistance to what was originally said and contrasting acceptance of what is now said is really deflating...having just recently watched ‘Unbelievable’ which is a true story, it’s easy to see how justice proceedings can feel like ‘being raped again’...and the temptation to say...no, it didn’t happen and have it all be over and give the system what is felt it wants...

As if Boris will help :/

He may surprise everyone... time will tell


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He has previous for "helping" uk citizens in trouble abroad.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9226936.html

Mr Johnson was accused of playing into the regime’s hands when, during his tenure in the foreign office, he told a Commons committee the British-Iranian citizen had been “teaching people journalism” in the country when she was arrested on charges of espionage.

The claim was used by the nation as evidence to double her prison sentence, furthering allegations she had been spreading “propaganda against the regime”. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard Ratcliffe have maintained she was on holiday at the time of her arrest.

The Foreign Office is already involved. Is someone's expecting Boris to fly over personally?

The safest bet would be to go in not trying to have her sentence overturned, but to try to get her transferred to a UK prison. Then go from there.

I'm not expecting boris to fly there personally..I hope he doesn't. .. if he starts meddling she'll be stuck there indefinately like that other poor cow he 'helped'!

The sentencing is not till Tuesday so she may not need to spend anymore time in any prison - it sounds like a suspended sentence is quite likely