Tariq Ramadan sentenced on appeal for rape in Switzerland to 3 years in prison, one of which is firm

Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan was sentenced on appeal in Switzerland for rape and sexual coercion to a three-year prison sentence, including one year in prison, the Geneva court announced on Tuesday, September 10, after acquitting him at first instance.

The Criminal Appeal and Review Chamber“Annuls the judgment of the criminal court of May 24, 2023, finding Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion for almost all of the facts reported”said the Geneva Court of Justice, confirming information from Swiss public television RTS. It “sentences Tariq Ramadan to a three-year custodial sentence, without suspension for one year”.

Tariq Ramadan had pleaded for acquittal

The prosecutor had requested three years in prison, half of which would be firm.

Tariq Ramadan, a charismatic and controversial figure in European Islam, denies any sexual act and had pleaded for acquittal.

Converted to Islam, the complainant, “Brigitte”who calls himself that to protect himself from threats, assured the judges that he had subjected her to brutal sexual acts accompanied by blows and insults in the room of the Geneva hotel where he was staying, on the night of October 28, 2008.