Cyprus’s Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a British woman who had been sentenced to four months in jail for lying about being gang-raped by 12 Israelis in a hotel room in 2019.In July 2019, the then-19-year-old woman filed a report with the police, saying she had been attacked by as many as 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel in Ayia Napa.However, she signed a retraction 10 days later and was charged with public mischief for filing a false complaint. She has continued to maintain in court that she was pressured to withdraw the allegations.
In January 2020, she was found guilty and sentenced to four months in prison with a three-year delay.Among the main grounds for the appeal was that the retraction should not have been admitted in the trial because the teenager was suffering from PTSD and did not have a lawyer or translator, the Cyprus Mail reported.