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She was convicted following a trial after recanting a declare that she was raped in a resort room in July.
The international secretary has urged Cyprus to “do the suitable factor” within the case of a British teenager convicted of mendacity about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa.
Dominic Raab stated Cyprus was “delicate” about interference, however added the lady’s sentencing on 7 January was “firmly on my radar”.
He additionally advised the BBC he had spoken to the lady’s mom and provided assist.
The 19-year-old was convicted after she recanted a declare that she was raped by 12 Israelis in a resort on 17 July.
The UK beforehand stated it was “significantly involved concerning the honest trial ensures” for the lady.
And chatting with the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday, Mr Raab revealed he had conveyed his “very severe considerations” about her remedy by the Cypriot authorities to his reverse quantity on the island.
He stated {the teenager} had gone by means of a “horrible ordeal” and that he had spoken to her mom on Friday “to see what additional assist we may present”.
He added it was his precedence to get the lady again to the UK to start out her restoration.
The Cypriot authorities previously responded to criticism by saying it had “full confidence within the justice system and the courts”.
Requested whether or not the Overseas Workplace would advise vacationers towards visiting Cyprus, Mr Raab stated it all the time retains its journey recommendation “beneath evaluation”.
Earlier, he advised Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that {the teenager}’s case have to be dealt with “sensitively to verify we do not do something counter-productive”.
Requested what he would do if he felt there was a miscarriage of justice, Mr Raab added: “We do not management the Cypriot justice system…however there are clear questions across the due course of, the honest trial, safeguards which have utilized on this case.”
{The teenager} may withstand a yr in jail and a £1,500 superb on Tuesday, however her attorneys have requested for a suspended sentence.
Dominic Raab was talking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr present
{The teenager} first contacted Cypriot police in July, hours after she claims she was raped by 12 Israeli youths in a room on the Pambos Napa Rocks resort in Ayia Napa.
The 12 had been arrested however later freed and returned house after she retracted her claims 10 days later.
She was then arrested and later appeared in court docket going through costs of public mischief, to which she pleaded not responsible.
The lady has since stated Cypriot police made her falsely confess to mendacity concerning the incident – one thing police have denied.
She was discovered responsible on a cost of inflicting public mischief on 30 December.
The conviction has attracted criticism from ladies’s teams and human rights campaigners.
Protesters from the Community Towards Violence Towards Girls protested exterior the court docket on the day of {the teenager}’s conviction.
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Protesters from the Community Towards Violence Towards Girls had been exterior the court docket
The lady’s attorneys have additionally criticised the conviction and the best way the case was dealt with by the Cypriot police and Choose Michalis Papathanasiou.
They pledged to enchantment towards it and plan to take her case to the Cyprus Supreme Court docket.
Senior authorized figures in Cyprus later signed a letter written to the Lawyer Basic Costas Clerides asking him to intervene within the case, together with former justice minister Kypros Chrysostomides.
Mr Chrysostomides stated {the teenager} had “already suffered rather a lot” and he expects her sentence will probably be “very lenient”.
He added: “She has already been in detention for 4 and a half weeks and he or she has already been prevented from travelling for about 5 months already.”
The lady’s mom stated her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress dysfunction, hallucinations, and was sleeping for 18 or 20 hours a day due to a situation referred to as hypersomnia.
She stated {the teenager} urgently must return to the UK to get remedy.
The lady’s mom stated she believed her daughter’s expertise in Ayia Napa was not an remoted incident, and backed a web based marketing campaign for vacationers to boycott the island.
She advised the BBC: “The place is not protected – it’s completely not protected. And for those who go and report one thing that is occurred to you, you are both laughed at, so far as I can inform, or, within the worst case, one thing like what’s…