(BBC) A Swiss appeals court has convicted the prominent scholar of Islam Tariq Ramadan of rape, overturning a previous acquittal dating back to 2023.
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.
