Anyone remember this Cyprus court case ?
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:56 pm
I remember it very well as it was often on fb groups I'm a member of back here in UK.
I haven't been on the PL Forum for a while as I came to update a thread earlier today so decided to have a browse of unread posts....
The result again was raised on several fb groups and still, many people (mostly guys) were still laying the blame at the feet of the young woman (18yrs old at the time of the event).
The woman has now been awarded €20,000 (£16,500) in damages and €5,000 in costs by the ECHR.
And no wonder since it all took place in 2019:
After her retraction, the youths were released from detention and returned home without facing further legal action. Some said they had had consensual sex with “X” but all denied rape.
In January 2022, Cyprus’s Supreme Court overturned the woman’s conviction, upholding her assertion that she had retracted her allegation under pressure, casting a harsh light on Cypriot practices in investigating sexual abuse.
Despite that ruling, Cyprus’s attorney general declined to reopen an investigation into her original complaint, her lawyers said.