Boycott Cypress as unsafe for holidays

[Gbtch]

Recent news reports make it clear to me that women are not safe to travel to Cypress. Rapists, however, seem to be protected there. AIBU to suggest that all women, and non-rapist men should avoid Cypress at all costs?

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A woman was recently raped in our city centre. Should I flee my home and avoid my city at all costs?

Should my city be boycotted by tourists because rape exists here too?

YABU to boycott anywhere because crime exists there. There is nowhere on Earth that is crime free.

1. It's Cyprus and are you saying that men who do travel to Cyprus are rapists? Think you need to crawl back under your rock to continue with your sheltered life.

Dont be ridiculous

Cyprus.

Bastard trees

Utterly ridiculous.

Funny how an identical thread on here with hundreds of comments was a resounding yes - boycott! However personally I do disagree- lots of miscarriages of justice happen everywhere. The UK is rife with it.

That's the last time I'll spend my holiday in a tree.

It’s not the fact that this girl was raped
It’s the fact that the Cypriot authorities bullied her into withdrawing her complaint for political reasons. The whole thing stinks
I’m not saying a young girl being raped would be treated any better by the police in any other country but even so it’s awful and shows who’s side the Cypriots are on if anyone reports a crime against Israelis in their territory

And still we don't actually know the real facts. She was ALLEGEDLY bullied in to withdrawing and I've yet to see any facts that aren't one sided. I mean, I'm inclined I believe her but we can't know for certain.

I think that some of the YABU posters don't know the full story that the OP is referring to.

A British woman in Cyprus was gang-raped in Cyprus. The rapists have been set free & gone home, but the woman who was raped imprisoned for "lying".

The Cypriot police interrogated her without legal representation until she "confessed" to making up the gang-rape, despite video and medical evidence suggesting she was raped.

I believe the OP is suggesting that a drop in tourist numbers would force Cyprus to admit the error of their ways and release a frightened woman, still suffering from the aftermath of brutal rape and illegal interrogation.

I believe her.

Violent crime happens everywhere, sadly. But the Cypriot police's response is terrifying.

I'm unsure if a boycott will help, but it does make me think twice. I love Cyprus, speak some Greek and planned to visit in April. I do feel uneasy about it now, not because it's unsafe for me (as a visitor with a 6mo I won't be doing mych clubbing), but because prosecuting a victim is so profoundly wrong.

I think some of the YABU voters like trees.

bastard trees 😀

I wouldn’t go to Cyprus again. It’s institutional sexism and scary for young girls. I completely agree with the boycott. It sends a message. Brits count for a high proportion of their tourists so they would feel it too.

Imagine it was your daughter, niece, mum, sister. Now tell me it’s an overreaction.

Why boycott cypress? Are you insane in the membrane?

Bear in mind that Cyprus is effectively two countries. No reason why the north should lose out because of what has happened in the south.

I am boycotting it for sure.

Ridiculous. I lived there for years when very young and as a teen and often visit. The vast majority of people there are lovely, warm, hard-working men and women trying to make ends meet like everybody else. Many places there rely heavily on tourism. It's ridiculous to punish them just because of one idiot judge in one case.

Exactly @Equanimitas

I believe the OP is suggesting that a drop in tourist numbers would force Cyprus to admit the error of their ways and release a frightened woman, still suffering from the aftermath of brutal rape and illegal interrogation.

None of which would happen. Also doesn’t address the fact this can happen literally anywhere and there are very few countries which have a great track record for prosecuting rape cases.

Imagine it was your daughter, niece, mum, sister. Now tell me it’s an overreaction.

It’s an overreaction.

We do not know whether the young woman in Cyprus was raped or not. The evidence was reviewed by the police and just wasn’t there to show she had been raped. That’s why they advised she drop the charges. False rape claims do exist and you can be prosecuted for making them. This young woman in Cyprus is lucky that her prosecution was dropped due to international pressure (not lack of evidence).

That was not the case for Laura Hood who was jailed in the U.K. for 3yrs this past August for a false rape claim against a U.K. taxi driver.

www.breakingnews.ie/world/woman-jailed-for-three-years-over-false-rape-claim-in-the-uk-941267.html

Where is the outrage for her?

Or outrage against the French? You do know that there were two proven, with piles of evidence nasty gang rapes in Paris this year. Police gang raped a tourist and then firefighters gang raped another tourist. And if you believe the woman in Cyprus was raped (you know better than the people who have actually seen the evidence), why do you think that Cyprus is to be held responsible for the actions of Israeli tourists, but not the French for the actions of their own police?