Following damning developments within the case of a British younger lady gang raped in Ayia Napa in 2019 activists have slammed the way in which reported rapes and violence in opposition to girls in Cyprus are dealt with.
In actual fact, girls’s actions are demanding the related coaching of cops, investigators and judges in addition to an finish to discrimination, prejudice and stereotypes.
Together with the fast implementation of the Istanbul Conference on stopping and combating violence in opposition to girls and home violence which Cyprus additionally signed in 2017.
The Conference is the primary legally-binding instrument which creates a complete authorized framework and strategy to fight violence in opposition to girls”.
It’s also centered on stopping violence in opposition to girls and home violence, defending victims and prosecuting accused offenders.
Per week in the past, the island’s Supreme Courtroom overturned a conviction in opposition to a British lady who was accused of mendacity about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa by a bunch of Israeli vacationers.
The Courtroom had examined an enchantment submitted by her legal professionals final September.
The lady, now 21 years of age, had been handed a suspended four-month jail sentence in January 2020, after being discovered responsible of public mischief for reporting the rape.
She stated that she was pressured by the police within the district to withdraw her assertion.