Tariq Ramadan Released, Rape Charges Dropped

Islamologist Tariq Ramadan was acquitted, Wednesday, of charges of rape and sexual coercion by a Geneva court, local news outlets reported.
The court ruled that there was no evidence against Ramadan.
He will also receive approximately 154,400 euros in compensation from the State of Geneva.
The plaintiff immediately announced that she would appeal. “We will fight to the end,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Robert Assaël told reporters.
The Geneva’s prosecutor accused Ramadan of raping the victim three times in the same night and of sexual coercion. He had requested three years in prison, half of which with no remission.
The plaintiff, 57, who chose “Brigitte” as a pseudonym to protect her identity, asserted that Ramadan subjected her to brutal sexual acts, blows and insults at a Geneva hotel room where he was staying, on Oct. 28, 2008.
Ramadan, 60 years old, claimed that the plaintiff had invited herself to his room.
Brigitte requested reimbursement of legal fees and compensation of about 51,400 euros.