Cyprus rejects Congolese woman’s asylum bid over homicide, rape claims

Cyprus’s Administrative Court of Appeal has upheld the rejection of an asylum application from a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo, closing the case definitively. The Court ruled that her account contained substantial contradictions and did not establish a right to refugee status or subsidiary protection.

The appellant had claimed she was being persecuted in her country of origin because, working as a nurse, she had administered medication to a young girl who subsequently died...