Overview

• The Swiss Federal Tribunal rejected Tariq Ramadan’s appeal in a decision taken on July 22 and published on August 28.
• Geneva’s 2024 judgment stands, finding him guilty of rape and sexual coercion and imposing a three-year sentence with one year to serve.
• The Geneva court’s findings rested on multiple concordant testimonies, medical notes, certificates, and private expert opinions, according to the Federal Tribunal.
• Ramadan was acquitted at first instance in 2023, while the complainant known as “Brigitte” filed her complaint about a decade after the 2008 incident, encouraged by complaints made in France in 2017.
• Ramadan’s lawyers objected to the procedure and plan to petition the European Court of Human Rights, as the plaintiff’s counsel called the decision the end of a long judicial ordeal.