GENEVA: Switzerland’s supreme court said Thursday it had rejected an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan against his rape conviction, but his lawyers said he would take the case to Europe’s rights court. “The Federal Court dismissed Tariq Ramadan’s appeal against the conviction for rape and sexual coercion handed down by the Geneva Court of Justice,” the high court said in a statement.

Tariq Ramadan va faire appel de sa première condamnation pour viol en Suisse devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH), ont fait savoir ses avocats dans la foulée.

After being acquitted in 2023, a Geneva appeals court last year found the 63-year-old former Oxford University professor 'guilty of rape and sexual coercion' of a woman in a…