France: Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan gets 18 years for rape
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“A Paris court has sentenced in absentia Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to 18 years in prison for the rape of three women.”
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— No evidence found in archive to confirm or refute the claim about Tariq Ramadan's 18-year sentence in France.
“The former Oxford University professor was found guilty of all three counts that took place between 2009 and 2016.”
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“Ramadan has continuously denied the allegations brought to the French court but later admitted to having had contact with the women.”
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“An arrest warrant for the 63-year-old has been issued, said presiding Judge Corinne Goetzmann, as the sentence cannot be enforced until Ramadan is arrested in France.”
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“The court also banned the scholar from setting foot on French territory again following the end of his sentence.”
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“Since Switzerland does not extradite its citizens to other countries, it is unclear how the well-known academic will be brought to justice.”
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— No evidence found in archive to confirm Switzerland's extradition policies or their application to Ramadan.
“In 2024, Ramadan was convicted in a separate case of rape and sexual assault in Switzerland.”
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“The following year, the Swiss supreme court rejected Ramadan's appeal against the ruling. It upheld the sentence of three years in prison, two of which were suspended.”
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“He did not appear at the Paris trial in person this month, with his lawyers citing a 'flare-up' of multiple sclerosis requiring hospitalization in Geneva, Switzerland, as the reason for his absence.”
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“However, this claim was rejected by a court-ordered medical assessment.”
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“Before the sexual assault allegations surfaced during the height of the 'Me Too' movement, Ramadan was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford with visiting roles at universities in Qatar and Morocco.”
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“He is a grandson of Hassan al-Banna, who co-founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1920s.”
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“Critics accuse the scholar of advocating for a particularly conservative and political interpretation of Islam. He denies any affiliation with extremist Islamic movements.”
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“He denies any affiliation with extremist Islamic movements.”
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