{"id":131888,"date":"2024-09-10T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/former-oxford-islamic-scholar-jailed-for-rape-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T23:03:16","slug":"former-oxford-islamic-scholar-jailed-for-rape-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/former-oxford-islamic-scholar-jailed-for-rape-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oxford Islamic scholar jailed for rape in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Swiss appeals court has found a former Oxford professor guilty of rape and sexual coercion nearly 16 years ago and sentenced him to a year in prison.<\/p>\n

In a written ruling made public on Tuesday, the court in Geneva handed noted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, 62, a three-year prison sentence of which two were suspended, according to a copy of the decision.<\/p>\n

He was ordered to pay damages to the complainant as well as legal and other fees totalling more than 100,000 Swiss francs (about \u00a390,000).<\/p>\n

The verdict included intimate details of Ramadan allegedly forcing the woman to have sex and preventing her from leaving a Geneva hotel room in October 2008, as well as social media exchanges they had before and after.<\/p>\n

The verdict comes about 17 months after a lower court cleared him, citing a lack of material evidence.<\/p>\n

Ramadan, who is Swiss, can appeal to Switzerland’s highest court to overturn the ruling, which took place on 28 August but was only made public earlier today.<\/p>\n

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“The Criminal Appeal and Review Division found that several testimonies, certificates, medical notes and opinions of private experts aligned with the complainant’s testimony,” the Geneva canton’s government said.<\/p>\n

Ramadan was handed preliminary charges for rape over two alleged assaults in France over a decade ago. He was jailed in February 2018 and released on bail nine months later, pending trial.<\/p>\n

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A third woman filed a rape complaint against him in France in March last year.<\/p>\n

Ramadan, a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, an Islamist thinker and activist who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, has consistently denied wrongdoing and filed suit saying the allegations were false.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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