Posts tagged with "rape"

Child rapist was allowed public access to children Cyprus

Child rapist was allowed public access to children

January 20th, 2019 By Ioannis Androlikou A convicted child rapist has been allowed to take children on horse and carriage rides along the Paphos coast and in Peyia since 2014 because a series of legal loopholes meant he did not need a police clearance certificate to obtain the necessary licence. The man was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2006...
Man remanded after alleged rape Crime

Man remanded after alleged rape

December 15th, 2018 A 43-year-old man was remanded for six days on Saturday in connection with the alleged rape earlier in the week of a 32-year-old woman in Paphos. The man was arrested after the 32-year-old reported that she was raped by two men last Monday. She told police she was out walking on December 10 when a vehicle with two men inside...
Cyprus has high reporting rate but low convictions for rape Cyprus

Cyprus has high reporting rate but low convictions for rape

November 24th, 2018 By Lizzy Ioannidou CYPRUS is among just six out of the 33 countries that have ratified the Council of Europe’s convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul convention) to have adopted a consent-based legal definition of rape, according to an Amnesty International report on Friday. According to the...
French actor Depardieu faces rape investigation, denies wrongdoing World

French actor Depardieu faces rape investigation, denies wrongdoing

August 31st, 2018 Gerard Depardieu is being investigated by the Paris prosecutor over accusations of rape and sexual assault, a judicial source said - though the prominent French actor denies any wrongdoing, according to his lawyer. One of France's most prolific actors, Depardieu, 69, has been in around 170 movies through his career and gained...
Man sentenced to eight years for rape of stepdaughter Cyprus

Man sentenced to eight years for rape of stepdaughter

July 27th, 2018 The Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on Friday sentenced a 40-year-old man from Nicosia to eight years for the rape of a minor, who was his stepdaughter at the time. The defendant is a facing 10 separate other counts of rape. The hearing took place without the presence of the public. The criminal court said that "the defendant was...
Man jailed for raping, beating stepdaughters Cyprus

Man jailed for raping, beating stepdaughters

June 29th, 2018 A 47-year-old man in Larnaca was sentenced to 12 years in prison for systematically raping and beating his step-daughter and causing grievous body harm to her sister. The man, who has not been named to protect the identities of the victims, was found guilty on four counts of rape, violating a woman under the age of 13, indecent...
Anti-trafficking campaigners abducted and raped in India Asia

Anti-trafficking campaigners abducted and raped in India

June 22nd, 2018 Five Indian anti trafficking campaigners were gang-raped at gunpoint during an awareness programme they were organising in a village, police said on Friday. Unidentified men picked up nine activists during a street play performance in Kochang village in Jharkhand state and drove them into a dense forest, where the men were beaten up...
US judge criticised over rape sentencing removed (Update) Americas

US judge criticised over rape sentencing removed (Update)

June 6th, 2018 Voters removed from office a California judge who drew worldwide condemnation for giving a six-month jail sentence to a Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, unofficial returns from a special election showed on Wednesday. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, a former...
Teen bride who killed 'rapist' husband appeals death sentence Africa

Teen bride who killed 'rapist' husband appeals death sentence

May 25th, 2018 A Sudanese teen sentenced to death after killing her husband as he tried to rape her has appealed the ruling amid growing support by celebrities and on social media. Lawyers defending 19-year-old Noura Hussein said they filed the appeal on Thursday, according to US rights group Equality Now, which has worked with the Khartoum-based...
Teenager suspected of raping elderly woman Cyprus

Teenager suspected of raping elderly woman

April 1st, 2018 A 17-year-old teenager was remanded on Saturday for five days for allegedly assaulting, raping and injuring an 81-year-old woman. According to the police, the incident took place on Friday evening in Nicosia. The husband of the 81-year-old reported that the teenager entered their house while he was away, attacked and raped his...
Paphos police investigate rape claim (updated) Crime

Paphos police investigate rape claim (updated)

March 3rd, 2018 A 24-year-old woman reported to police she was raped outside a club in Paphos early on Saturday morning, the police said. According to the British woman’s testimony, she was at club in Kato Paphos where she met a man at around 3:30am. She said that at approximately 4:45am she left the club with the man and went to an area behind...
Twenty years for one rapist, 11 for another Cyprus

Twenty years for one rapist, 11 for another

February 8th, 2018 The Nicosia criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 34-year-old man to 20 years in prison having found him guilty on charges of rape and indecent assault. The man was handed 20 years for rape and another three years for indecent assault, with the two sentences to run concurrently. In a separate case, the court handed down an 11-year...
Labour activist says she was raped, advised not to report it Britain

Labour activist says she was raped, advised not to report it

November 1st, 2017 An activist in Britain's opposition Labour Party has said she was raped at a party event when she was 19, and that a party official discouraged her from reporting the attack to avoid damaging her career. The disclosure by Bex Bailey, 25, is the most serious to emerge from a wave of allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men...
Rape victim, 10, delivers baby after India court bars abortion Asia

Rape victim, 10, delivers baby after India court bars abortion

August 17th, 2017 A 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion by India's top court gave birth on Thursday in a case that has drawn outrage about the sexual abuse of children. The girl did not know she was pregnant and was unaware she had delivered a baby; her parents told their daughter she was undergoing stomach surgery to remove a...
Nearly 70 per cent of serious crimes solved, police say Crime

Nearly 70 per cent of serious crimes solved, police say

August 16th, 2017 Police said on Wednesday they had cleared close to 70 per cent of serious crime cases recorded in the first six months of the year. According to figures published by the force, out of 2,481 cases between January and June, 1,530, or 61.67 per cent, had been cleared. Serious crime includes murder, attempted murder, rape, attempted...
Pensioner found guilty of sexually abusing his granddaughter aged 9 Cyprus

Pensioner found guilty of sexually abusing his granddaughter aged 9

July 17th, 2017 A 70-year-old man was found guilty by the Nicosia criminal court on Monday for sexually abusing his nine-year-old granddaughter. He was found guilty of 40 counts relating to indecent assault and sexual abuse of a minor between June 2014 and August 2015. The court heard that his granddaughter was nine when the abuse began and over...
Man arrested for alleged rape and assault on ex News in Brief

Man arrested for alleged rape and assault on ex

July 16th, 2017 A 42-year-old man from Larnaca is due in court on Sunday after his ex, 47, said he had gone into her home, raped and assaulted her, and caused actual bodily harm with a knife in the early hours of Saturday. According to police the woman filed a complaint on Saturday saying that around 4.30am the same day, the man, with whom she had...
Man jailed for 15 years for raping his daughter Cyprus

Man jailed for 15 years for raping his daughter

June 27th, 2017 A 50-year-old man from Larnaca was jailed for 15 years on Tuesday after he was found guilty of raping his underage daughter. In a written statement, the criminal court said the offences had taken place between 2010 and 2013, starting when the girl was nine-years-old. The procedure took place behind closed doors. The man was charged...
Man detained on suspicion of raping his 12-year-old niece Cyprus

Man detained on suspicion of raping his 12-year-old niece

June 22nd, 2017 A 30-year-old man has been detained on suspicion of raping his 12-year-old niece, reports said on Thursday. The man, who was remanded in custody for seven days, allegedly raped his niece repeatedly last January. Reports said the girl had not reported the man, but she told a friend who in turn told her mother. The mother went to...
Japan moves towards first major rape law changes in a century World

Japan moves towards first major rape law changes in a century

June 8th, 2017 By Linda Sieg and Ami Miyazaki Japan stepped closer to amending its century-old sex crime law on Thursday when parliament's lower house approved a bill to widen the definition of rape, make prison sentences lengthier and allow prosecution when victims do not press charges. Victims and activists have long campaigned for changes to...
Indian woman battered to death with bricks after being gang-raped World

Indian woman battered to death with bricks after being gang-raped

May 15th, 2017 An Indian woman was gang-raped and then brutally murdered by men who smashed her skull with bricks after she had threatened to inform authorities, police in the northern state of Haryana, said on Monday. Police have arrested two men for rape and murder in Sonipat town, and six more were being investigated after the victim's mother...
Man arrested after ex claimed she was raped Cyprus

Man arrested after ex claimed she was raped

March 17th, 2017 A 27-year-old man was arrested in connection with a 34-year-old woman’s allegations of rape and assault, Larnaca police said on Friday. According to police, the woman told Larnaca CID at noon Thursday that the suspect, with whom she had been romantically involved for five months prior to their break-up in February 2017, rang her...
Man jailed for 2009 rape of 17-year-old girl (updated) Crime

Man jailed for 2009 rape of 17-year-old girl (updated)

February 13th, 2017 The Limassol criminal court on Monday sentenced a 42-year-old man to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty of raping a 17-year-old girl in 2009. The Romanian national had been detained in Romania in October last year on an international arrest warrant issued in relation with the offence committed in Limassol in 2009. The...
Slovenian martial arts athlete claims rape Cyprus

Slovenian martial arts athlete claims rape

December 12th, 2016 A Slovenian athlete who came to Cyprus with her trainer told Larnaca police he had raped her, it emerged on Monday. The 25-year-old martial arts sportswoman told police at Oroklini that her 50-year-old instructor, also from Slovenia, had raped her after they returned to their hotel following a night out together. The young woman...
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