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		</div><p>A British teenager has been found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus.</p>
<p>The 19-year-old was convicted of a single count of public mischief at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni on Monday.</p>
<p>She claimed she was attacked by up to 12 Israeli tourists in an Ayia Napa hotel on July 17 before making a retraction statement 10 days later.</p>
<p>The woman insisted in court that she was raped but had been pressured into changing her account by Cypriot police.</p>
<p>But she nodded her head slightly as she was found guilty, showing no other emotion until after Judge Michalis Papathanasiou adjourned sentencing to January 7.</p>
<p>The judge said the teenager did not tell the truth and had tried to deceive the court with “convenient” and “evasive” statements.</p>
<p>He said she told investigators she made up the claims because she felt “ashamed” after finding out some of the Israelis had filmed her having sex on their mobile phones.</p>
<p>Following the verdict, she argued with her lawyers, saying <em>“I thought you were asking for a fine”</em>, after Ritsa Pekri asked the judge to impose a suspended sentence, saying that she was under strong psychological pressure at the time.</p>
<p>The woman was a week into a working holiday the summer before she was due to start university when she alleged she was raped by the group of young Israeli men.</p>
<p>All 12 Israelis arrested over the alleged attack returned home after they were released.</p>
<p>The woman spent more than a month in prison before she was granted bail at the end of August and has not been allowed to leave the island.</p>
<p>She is still on bail and could face up to a year in jail and a 1,700 euro (£1,500) fine when she is sentenced.</p>
<p>The teenager was mobbed by photographers and camera operators as she left court with her mother.</p>
<p>Both wore white scarves around their faces depicting lips sewn together – brought by protesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women, who filled the court and demonstrated outside.</p>
<p>The teenager and her mother left the building as defence lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou told reporters that they plan to appeal against the verdict.</p>
<p><em>“The decision of the court is respected,”</em> she said. <em>“However, we respectfully disagree with it.</em></p>
<p><em>“We believe there have been many violations of the procedure and the rights of a fair trial of our client have been violated.</em></p>
<p><em>“We are planning to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, and if justice fails … we are planning to take our case to the European Court of Human Rights.”</em></p>
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