A judge in Cyprus has criticised a British teenager who falsely accused 12 Israeli tourists aged 15 to 18 of gang rape in Cyprus, saying she had caused them unnecessary “suffering”.

One of the 12 Israeli men accused of gang-raping a British woman in Cyprus has revealed how police dragged him from his bed and wrongly accused him of the heinous crime.

Speaking for the first time since he was cleared of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old, Yona Golub told reporters a selfie of him in bed with his girlfriend proved he was not present at the time of the alleged attack.

The 18-year-old said he planned to take legal action against the woman, claiming strangers yell “rapist” at him in the street.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he described how he was dragged out of bed by police as officers stormed his hotel.

“The police banged on the door, they woke me up,” he told reporters. “The officers came rushing in. They pulled me from my bed and said, ‘You’re being arrested on suspicion of rape’. I didn’t know what they were talking about.

“They made me get dressed, handcuffed me and took me to the station. I was so confused. I had no idea what was going on. My girlfriend was terrified.

“I wasn’t even in the room, and I’ve never met the woman in my life. I was with my Israeli girlfriend at the time, but the police still connected me to it.

“When they came to arrest my friends, they thought I was with this woman too.

“Apparently when she was shown my picture she said that I was there as well. It was all lies. It had nothing to do with me.

“The police just believed what she was saying. But you saw that in the end she admitted she lied, but it hasn’t worked out so well for her.”

He said a selfie taken by his girlfriend in bed at the time of the alleged attack helped prove he was not involved.

The British accuser is now facing up to a year in a Cypriot jail after being accused of fabricating the whole affair.

A Cyprus court on Tuesday adjourned for one week the legal proceedings against the British woman, who faces a public nuisance charge after admitting to falsely accusing a dozen Israelis of raping her at a Cypriot hotel.

Andreas Pittadjis, the lawyer for the British woman, says a judge granted his request for the adjournment until August 7 so that he and his client can study all the evidence that police investigators have amassed.

Mr Pittadjis said his client would “most likely” enter a plea to the charge at her next court appearance but wouldn’t say how she would plead.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and a 1700 euro ($A2768) fine. The lawyer said the woman had consented to remain in police detention until August 7.

Mr Pittadjis was highly critical of leaked video footage allegedly showing the British woman having sex with several young men, calling the leak “a much more serious criminal offence” than the charge his client faces.

Cyprus police on Sunday freed the remaining seven of 12 Israelis who were initially arrested on July 17 after the British woman said she was raped at the same hotel where she and the suspects were staying.

Police have said the woman voluntarily recanted her rape allegation.

The Cyprus News Agency reported the woman allegedly told investigators she filed the rape report because she was “angry and insulted” that some of the Israelis allegedly recorded video of her having sex with a number of them.

— with wires