French court finds Swiss Islamic scholar Ramadan guilty of rape

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Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison by a Paris criminal court for the rape of three women.The verdict marks the latest fall from grace for the former Oxford University professor, who faces a string of rape allegations in Switzerland and France and has already been convicted in the former.A charismatic yet controversial figure in European Islam, Ramadan has always maintained his innocence.While he had been on trial in Paris since March 2 for...