Tariq Ramadan convicted of rape in Switzerland

A Swiss appeals court convicted the prominent scholar of Islam, Tariq Ramadan, of rape at the end of last month.

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Swiss broadcaster RTS reported that, at the end of August, the court ruled Ramadan must serve a three-year prison sentence - two of them suspended - for an assault that the accuser said took place in 2008.

He had originally been acquitted of the charges in May 2023.

Ramadan, 62, is a Swiss citizen and the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

He rose to prominence as an academic in the early 2000s, and in 2007 he became a professor of Islamic studies at St Antony's College Oxford.

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