Police undergoing training on how to handle rape cases
Police are undergoing training on how to handle cases of rape and sexual assault, the force announced on Monday. The training by foreign experts, which...
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Suspect in custody after two women report rape
A 28-year old man is in custody as a suspect in the rape of two women tourists in the Famagusta district in February 2018, police...
Bill making rape punishable with life imprisonment to be voted on next week
A bill to make rape punishable with life imprisonment will be tabled at the House plenum on October 9, the house legal affairs committee decided...
Consensus reached on updating definition of rape
The House legal affairs committee on Wednesday reached a broad consensus on a draft bill modernising the definition of rape under the law, they said....
Rape suspect remanded for eight days
The Larnaca district court on Sunday remanded a 43-year-old man for eight days on suspicion of abducting and raping a 24-year-old woman from an eastern...
Man remanded for five days after being accused of rape
A man accused of rape was on Sunday remanded for five days by the Paphos district court. According to police, a woman had accused him...
Asylum seeker imprisoned for rape
The Nicosia Criminal Court sentenced a 37-year-old man to eight years in prison on Tuesday after he was found guilty of rape. According to the...
Man sentenced to eight years in prison for rape
A 26-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of rape and attempted rape by Paphos criminal...
Ten years in prison for man who raped 72-year-old woman
The Paphos criminal court on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old man guilty of raping a 72-year-old woman to ten years in prison. The man had previously...
Man sentenced to six years for rape
A 23-year-old man was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday for the rape of Danish woman in Larnaca in 2018. The defendant, a...
July trial for Paphos rapist
A 26-year-old man who has pleaded guilty to one rape and two attempted rapes will stand trial on July 13, the Paphos criminal court ruled...
Man found guilty of rape two and half years ago
The Larnaca Criminal Court on Tuesday found a 23-year-old man guilty of raping a woman, also 23, almost two years ago in Oroklini. The rape...
Akel submits bill modernising definition of rape
The House legal affairs committee started discussion on Wednesday on a bill to modernise the definition of rape which has not been changed for the...
Man jailed for rape of British woman
A 32-year-old foreign national was sentenced to eight years in jail on Wednesday for the rape of a 20-year-old British woman in Ayia Napa last...
Paphos police investigating rape claim
Paphos police are investigating the alleged rape of a 47-year-old woman at 9pm on Sunday. The woman told police that at that time an unknown...
Man found guilty of raping 20-year-old British woman
Larnaca criminal court on Thursday found guilty a 32-year-old man for the rape of a 20-year-old British woman in Ayia Napa last summer. Sentencing will...
Police arrest man on suspicion of raping woman, 72
Police in Paphos arrested a man, 28, on suspicion of raping a 72-year-old woman late on Friday evening. The woman, who knows the suspect, told...
Two men jailed for repeatedly raping woman in institution
Two men, aged 49 and 52, have each been sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Nicosia district court after being found guilty of...
Nine years jail for raping underage girl
A 42-year-old man was sentenced to nine years in jail on Wednesday by the Nicosia criminal court for raping an underage girl. The man committed...
Man who raped ex partner’s child from the age of 6 to 10 is jailed for 27 years
A 48-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison by the Nicosia criminal court after being found guilty of the sexual abuse...
