Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan had his appeal against a rape conviction dismissed Thursday by Switzerland’s supreme court. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan Al Banna who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday found Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion in a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning last year’s lower court acquittal.
Tariq Ramadan, the prominent Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, is now under further investigation by police following more allegations of violent sexual assault.
Tariq Ramadan, the prominent former Oxford Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, has now had further allegations made against him, French judicial sources said Sunday.
PARIS (AFP) — An appeals court in Paris has upheld a decision by judges to keep Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in jail while he is being investigated on rape charges brought by two women, a legal source told AFP on Thursday.
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will face charges of raping two women despite an appeal for the matter to be dropped, a source close to the inquiry said.
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was arrested late last year in France on charges of rape, has been denied bail by a court of appeal who said that he is not only a flight risk but there is a possibility he may engage in the same type of behaviour he is indicted for.
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was being held in custody in France on multiple rape charges, has been released to hospital care for evaluation to determine if he is well enough to face trial.
Controversial Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, is being held by French police investigating accusations of rape.
Oxford students have reacted in anger after the director of the university’s Middle East Centre said mounting accusations of rape against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan looks like “Europeans” wanting to “gang up against a Muslim intellectual”.
French police are investigating death threats made against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over a cartoon of Islamist scholar Tariq Ramadan, who is facing rape allegations.
As French authorities prepare to hear more allegations of sexual assault against Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, his supporters have used social media networks to claim it is all part of a “Zionist plot.”
French authorities have opened an investigation into Swiss-born controversial Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan after a French feminist accused him of sexual misconduct and sending her death threats.
Breitbart News sat down for a one-on-one interview with Dr. Dany Doueiri, a Muslim professor who spoke at a recent vigil for the victims of the San Bernardino terrorists.
