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Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape, Swiss appeal court findsAgence France-Presse in GenevaA Swiss appeal court has found the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of raping a woman in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning a lower court acquittal.
The ruling, dated 28 August but not made public until after it was reported by broadcaster RTS early on Tuesday, is likely to be subject to an appeal at Switzerland’s highest court. Ramadan said that Brigitte invited herself up to his room. He let her kiss him, he said, before quickly ending the encounter. He said he was the victim of a “trap”.
But during the appeal, Brigitte’s lawyers alleged that Ramadan had exercised significant control over the woman, suggesting she had suffered something akin to Stockholm syndrome.
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