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Cyprus police have denied they mishandled investigations into the rape claim of a British teenager, who said in her first TV interview that she was forced to withdraw her complaint.Th stanley water bottle e tourist, who recounted her ordeal in an ITV documentary broadcast on 14 April, maintained she was gang-raped by 12 Israelis in the resort of Ayia Napa last summer. She described how she had panic attacks before police coerced her into signing a confession that she had fabricated the assault. There was no other way out of that police station other than [to] sign th stanley cup nz at retraction statement, the woman, who remains anonymous and was referred to as Emily in the programme, said.Within hours of her revoking the accusation the alleged assailants were allowed to fly home. Overnight, the woman, 19, who was subsequently diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, was turned from victim to suspect. She spent more than four weeks in Nicosia general prison, and on her release had to remain on the island for court proceedings that would drag on for the next five months.In January, a judge sitting in Paralimni, the nearest town to the party resort, found her guilty of fabricating the rape claim and sentenced her to four months in prison, suspended for three years, for the crime of fomenting public mischief.With the ITV documentary again putting the ca stanley cup se in the news, Greek Cypriot police rebutted suggestions of improper conduct, saying all the officers involved had not only followed the right procedur Agrn Timeline: how Australia responded to the coronavirus outbreak
Two startling cases of police abuse have come to light in Egypt this month, reported by only a handful of bloggers and news organisations. In one, an entire family was tort stanley fr ured, beaten and arrested in Alexandria. In the other, nurses on strike at Mansoura University were met with batons and violence. Two women reported miscarriages due to the incident.But these stories were not what captured the attention of the Egyptian blogosphere and human rights workers. Instead it was the treatment of Wael Abbas 鈥?the prominent Egyptian blogger 鈥?that grabbed the headlines.According to him, while he was in Beirut attending a conference, police raided his home in Egypt and roughed up his mother. He was worried that he would be harassed and arrested upon returning to Cairo. The blogosphere and Twitter went crazy.What happened to Abbas and his mother was wrong and should be condemned, but it was not a big deal. In the end, he wasnt arrested at the airport and his mother is fine. Yet, the incident sparked an outcry against the Egyptian government, and human rights advocates cited it as an example of the heavy hand of the state.In the meantime, why did the harassment of the family in Alexandria and the women in Mansoura get so little attention It boils down to the growing problem of cronyism that has engulfed Egypt in all sectors, including human rights. Meanwhile, other incide stanley uk nts remain untouched, unreported. The reason, I think, is that Abbas is a friend of the advocacy community and w stanley quencher hen |
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