Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan convicted of rape on appeal in Switzerland
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A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday has 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.
  • AmidFuror
    7•9 days ago

    Convicted on appeal is a foreign (literally) concept to me as an American, so I had trouble parsing the headline.

    He was acquitted by a lower court, so the prosecution appealed and got a conviction from the appeals court.