The ruling overturns an acquittal in May 2023 by a lower court which had claimed there was a lack of material evidence to convict the noted Islamic scholar of rape and sexual coercion.
A Swiss appeals court has found a former Oxford professor guilty of rape and sexual coercion nearly 16 years ago and sentenced him to a year in prison.
In a written ruling made public on Tuesday, the court in Geneva handed noted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, 62, a three-year prison sentence of which two were suspended, according to a copy of the decision.
The verdict included intimate details of Ramadan allegedly forcing the woman to have sex and preventing her from leaving a Geneva hotel room in October 2008, as well as social media exchanges they had before and after.
Ramadan, who is Swiss, can appeal to Switzerland’s highest court to overturn the ruling, which took place on 28 August but was only made public earlier today.