PARIS: Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison by a Paris criminal court for the rape of three women.<\/p>\n
The verdict marks the latest fall from grace for the former Oxford University professor, who faces a string of rape allegations in Switzerland and France and has already been convicted in the former.<\/p>\n
A charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, Ramadan has always maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n
While he had been on trial in Paris since March 2 for rapes allegedly committed against three women between 2009 and 2016, Ramadan did not appear in court in person.<\/p>\n
His lawyer cited a \u201cflare-up\u201d of multiple sclerosis requiring hospitalization in Geneva to explain his absence \u2014 but this was rejected by a court-ordered medical assessment.<\/p>\n
Presiding Judge Corinne Goetzmann said a warrant for the 63-year-old\u2019s arrest had been issued. The court also barred the scholar from setting foot on French territory again after the end of his sentence.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Switzerland\u2019s supreme court rejected Ramadan\u2019s appeal against his conviction for the rape of a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n
It upheld the sentence of three years in prison, two of which were suspended, handed down by the court in Geneva.<\/p>\n
Before word of his crimes came to light, Ramadan was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford and held visiting roles at universities in Qatar and Morocco.<\/p>\n
He was forced to take a leave of absence in 2017 when rape allegations surfaced in France at the height of the \u201cMe Too\u201d movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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