Swiss woman is pressi­ng crimin­al charge­s agains­t Ramada­n allegi­ng he raped her and held her agains­t her willGENEVA: The prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who is in French detention over several rape allegations, is facing a new accusation of rape, this time in Switzerland, a Swiss daily reported Friday. The alleged victim, who was not identified, is not the first to accuse Ramadan. Third woman accuses scholar Tariq Ramadan of rapeThe prominent TV pundit and Oxford University professor, whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, was detained by a French court in February over charges that he raped two Muslim women in France. Ramadan denies all the charges. Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan ‘paid woman for silence’The woman, a convert to Islam who was around 40 years old at the time, had been having family difficulties and had sought out the eminent Muslim scholar who like her grew up in Geneva, according to the paper.

Source: The Express Tribune April 14, 2018 03:56 UTC