Well-known Swiss intellectual Tariq Ramadan has been acquitted of rape charges in an ongoing trial in Geneva, Switzerland. Ramadan was reported by a woman to an alleged sexual assault in a Geneva hotel room in 2008. In addition to the acquittal, the court ordered the canton of Geneva to pay 151,000 Swiss francs (about 154,000 euros) in compensation to Ramadan. The woman who accused him said she would appeal.
In recent years, Ramadan has been accused of rape by several women: in addition to the woman who reported him in Switzerland, there were four others who reported him in Paris, France. Ramadan has been formally charged with these allegations, but a trial against him has not yet started. He was preemptively arrested on two of those charges in January 2018 and released nine months later after the Paris Court of Appeal granted him bail. Ramadan has always denied all allegations.
Tariq Ramadan is 60 years old, was born in Geneva and is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian political party. In addition to being Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, he has been widely featured on television and is held in high esteem by parts of the Muslim world, but is also criticized by Christian and atheist intellectuals for his views on political Islam. and they are often accused of leniency and ambiguity in the context of Islamist bigotry.
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