The prominent Swiss academic and Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan has gone on trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion. “This trial is an ordeal for my client, not therapy,” the Swiss complainant’s French lawyer, François Zimeray, told AFP. Ramadan was arrested in France in 2018 and spent nine months in prison on remand over the French rape allegations before being released on probation and barred from leaving the country. He was given exceptional authorisation to attend the Geneva trial this week. The three-day trial in Geneva will be heard by a panel of judges who will return a verdict on 24 May.

Source: The Guardian May 16, 2023 01:38 UTC