{"id":39010,"date":"2026-03-26T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/39010\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:34:27","slug":"french-court-sentences-islamic-scholar-to-18-years-in-prison-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/39010\/","title":{"rendered":"French court sentences Islamic scholar to 18 years in prison for rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p>A charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/2131847\/he-choked-me-so-hard-i-thought-i-was-going-die-islam-scholar-tariq?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ramadan<\/a> has always maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His lawyer cited a \u201cflare-up\u201d of multiple sclerosis requiring hospitalisation in Geneva to explain his absence &#8211; but this was rejected by a court-ordered medical assessment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison by a Paris criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22599,1001,65,20388,153,22598,2543,599,14824,22600,2147,41,17,14822],"class_list":{"0":"post-39010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-european-islam","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-morocco","12":"tag-multiple-sclerosis","13":"tag-oxford","14":"tag-paris","15":"tag-qatar","16":"tag-rape","17":"tag-rape-allegations","18":"tag-supreme-court","19":"tag-swiss","20":"tag-switzerland","21":"tag-tariq-ramadan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116294560215880118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39010","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=39010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}