The former Oxford University professor sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended
GENEVA – A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of raping a woman in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning an earlier lower court acquittal.
Ramadan, a charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, has always maintained his innocence. But during their appeal, Brigitte's lawyers alleged that Ramadan had exercised significant "control" over the woman, suggesting she had suffered something akin to Stockholm syndrome. He was forced to take leave of absence in 2017 when rape allegations surfaced in France at the height of the "Me Too" movement.His large defence team is fighting a Paris appeals court decision in June that the cases can go to trial. Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss intellectual accused of masking violence and radicalism behind a mild facade.
He has rejected allegations of anti-Semitism as attempts to silence what he sees as legitimate criticism of the Israeli state. Nevertheless, his attempt to acquire French nationality in addition to his Swiss passport to "provide a concrete, positive example of upholding the values of the Republic" was rejected in 2016 by the then prime minister Manuel Valls.Ramadan's fall from grace began in 2017, when he was first targeted with allegations of sexual violence in France.
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