A Case Note on X v. Cyprus (Application No. 40733/22) Introduction & Background of the Case In the case of X v. Cyprus, on 27 February 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Cyprus had violated Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In 2019, a British woman visiting Cyprus met a man at the hotel where they were both staying. After some consensual interactions, she later claimed that during a later encounter, she was raped by twelve men, friends of the same man. Following the applicant’s report to the authorities, it…