The young British woman will testify for the first time against the Israelis in the rape trial in Cyprus/Walla!
In the rape trial in Cyprus against five Israelis, the 20-year-old British woman who was raped will testify for the first time today (Tuesday).
The discussion takes place behind closed doors.
At the end of her testimony, she will be interrogated by the lawyers of the defendants, all of them young men from the settlement of Majd al-Khorum near Karmiel and who deny the charges against them.
Two of the defendants, who claim that they had no relationship with the British woman at all, are represented by the Israeli lawyer Nir Yaslovitz.
The lawyer arrived on the island last night, and is expected to appear today at the hearing being held at the Famagusta District Court in the town of Parlimani, which is adjacent to the resort town of Ayia Napa, where the rape took place.
"Second round" of the lawyers representing the parties.
Famagusta district court in Cyprus / Yoav Itiel
In her cross-examination, the Israeli lawyers will try to undermine the credibility of the British woman's version, and claim that everything that happened was of her own volition, and that the Cypriot police were negligent in her investigation and disrupted it.
The young woman from England is represented by attorney Michael Polk from the "Justice Abroad" organization, which specializes in representing Britons who have been harmed or denied their rights outside their country.
It's a kind of "second round", after the two represented each other in the rape case of a 19-year-old British woman in 2019.
As part of the affair in 2019, 12 Israelis were suspected of involvement, but were released within days, and the case was closed after she retracted.
The case was never opened even after she returned to her original version.
Her case was brought to the Supreme Court of Cyprus, where she was acquitted of a false complaint and her claims against the state, which did not renew the proceedings, were formulated into a lawsuit she filed against Cyprus at the European Court of Human Rights.
A decision has not yet been made.
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