{"id":117676,"date":"2026-08-19T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:52:22","slug":"swiss-court-rules-that-victims-of-alleged-sexual-abuse-can-stay-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117676\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss court rules that victims of alleged sexual abuse can stay in country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd3334937c5fce1a24e5826411901c86fbecc6cf-91916768.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Untersiggenthal AG case: Court upholds victim\u2019s appeal\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Untersiggenthal AG case: Court upholds victim\u2019s appeal            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        A Swiss court has ruled that two victims of alleged sexual crimes can stay in the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 19, 2026 &#8211; 09:45\n<\/p>\n<p>A mother and daughter have complained of being subject to sexual violence by a former politician in canton Aargau. They also lodged an appeal against the revocation of their Swiss residence permits. <\/p>\n<p>The Aargau Administrative Court has sided with the mother vand daughter by overturning a previous decision by the cantonal office for migration and integration. <\/p>\n<p>The two alleged victims will therefore retain their residence permits for EU and European Free Trade Association EFTA countries, including Switzerland. The judgement is not yet final.<\/p>\n<p>The court concluded that the mother entered into an employment relationship with the ex-politician as a domestic worker. It added that, despite a relationship developing between her and the politician, this should not be classified as a sham employment.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787183542_495_3f0f280268186dc28075b8ba25a25d260c1c0293-91770713.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Life imprisonment sought for a former Aargau cantonal councillor\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Life sentence sought for Swiss ex-politician accused of raping women and child    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jul 21, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Prosecutors seek life sentence for ex-Swiss politician accused of drugging and sexually abusing several women and a child.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/life-imprisonment-sought-for-a-former-aargau-cantonal-councillor\/91775796\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Life sentence sought for Swiss ex-politician accused of raping women and child<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Untersiggenthal AG case: Court upholds victim\u2019s appeal Keystone-SDA A Swiss court has ruled that two victims of alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,312,100,1292,103,41,17],"class_list":["post-117676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-latest-news","tag-law-and-order","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117124867531356894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}