{"id":19129,"date":"2020-01-07T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T08:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=19129"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T08:32:42","slug":"ayia-napa-briton-sentenced-over-false-rape-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/01\/07\/ayia-napa-briton-sentenced-over-false-rape-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayia Napa Briton sentenced over false rape claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British teenager has been given a four-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of lying about gang-rape in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old hugged her family and left court weeping after she was sentenced for public mischief.<\/p>\n<p>Her sentence was suspended for three years, and she has been ordered to pay \u20ac148 in legal fees. It means she is free to return to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s rights groups protested outside court ahead of the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>In Famagusta District Court on Tuesday, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told her he was giving her a &#8220;second chance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters from Cyprus and a group of women who travelled from Israel gathered outside court holding placards.<\/p>\n<p>They chanted &#8220;don&#8217;t be afraid, we believe you&#8221; as the sentence was read out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British teenager has been given a four-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of lying about gang-rape in Cyprus. The 19-year-old hugged her family and left court weeping after she was sentenced for public mischief. Her sentence was suspended for three years, and she has been ordered to pay &euro;148 in legal fees. It means she is free to return to the UK. Women&rsquo;s rights groups protested outside court ahead of the sentencing. In Famagusta District Court on Tuesday, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told her he was giving her a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19131,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions\/19131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}