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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has denied the allegations, did not attend the hearing citing health reasons. — AFP pic
PARIS, March 26 — Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was sentenced yesterday to 18 years in prison by a Paris criminal court for the rape of three women.
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.
A charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, Ramadan has always maintained his innocence.
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.
His lawyer cited a “flare-up” of multiple sclerosis requiring hospitalisation in Geneva to explain his absence — but this was rejected by a court-ordered medical assessment.
Presiding Judge Corinne Goetzmann said a warrant for the 63-year-old’s arrest had been issued. The court also barred the scholar from setting foot on French territory again after the end of his sentence.
In 2025, Switzerland’s supreme court rejected Ramadan’s appeal against his conviction for the rape of a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.
It upheld the sentence of three years in prison, two of which were suspended, handed down by the court in Geneva.
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.
He was forced to take a leave of absence in 2017 when rape allegations surfaced in France at the height of the “Me Too” movement. — AFP
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