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Cyprus: trial by porn culture
As more emerges about the young woman on trial in Cyprus after reporting a gang rape, women’s charity FiLiA looks at the human rights crisis behind the headlines
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CYPRUS, like Britain a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, has an obligation properly to investigate reports of rape.
So when a young British woman staying at a resort in Ayia Napa reported that while she was having (consensual) sex with her boyfriend, 11 of his friends came to join in, it would reasonably be expected that the authorities would do their best to investigate.
Such a complex case — 12 suspects, forensic evidence, a traumatised witness — would take some time, you might think. But no, the investigation was apparently concluded in just 12 days, after which the police turned on the complainant.
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