Tariq Ramadan

According to a report by Swiss broadcaster RTS, a witness contradicted an alibi given by the Swiss muslim academic. One of his accusers claims she was raped in Lyon during the afternoon of 9 October 2009. In opposition to this claim, Tariq Ramadan's lawyers produced a document referring to a plane ...

The organizers of a conference attended by Swiss-born academic Tariq Ramadan have contradicted his statement that he was on a plane to the event at the time a woman accused him of rape. Yassine Djemal from the Union of Young Muslims, which organized the September 2009 conference, said he ...

Canton Geneva authorities have called in two experts to conduct an external investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct alleged to have been perpetrated by Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan against pupils he taught in local schools. The role of the canton's education department in the affair will ...

Mr Ramadan, an Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, was detained on February 2 over charges he raped two women in France. His two initial accusers went to police in late October, both alleging that he had raped them in French hotel rooms.

Once hailed as a religious reformer by Western media outlets, Oxford University professor Tariq Ramadan's career has been brought to a halt by his arrest in France over sexual ... Swiss roots: Born in 1962, Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

A letter sent to the local educational authorities on Sunday has called for an administrative inquiry into Tariq Ramadan's behaviour during his time as a teacher at a Geneva school. The letter was addressed to canton Geneva's head of public education and to the president of the cantonal parliament.

French and Swiss sources have recently reported that Tariq Ramadan claimed to be professor at the University of Fribourg when he was not. ... University, Ali Merad, recalled that Ramadan threatened him with malicious complaints if he did not get his doctorate, and the academic has described how he had ...

French authorities ordered Ramadan to be placed in custody after he was charged, judging him a flight risk. His lawyers unsuccessfully proposed handing over his Swiss passport, bail of 50,000 euros ($62,000) and daily check-ins at a police station to secure his release. A professor of contemporary Islamic ...

Third rape accusation against Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan. By RFI Issued on 08-03-2018 Modified ... A third woman has accused Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape, claiming that he used threats to force her into "violent and degrading" sexual relations on about 10 occasions. Ramadan is in jail awaiting trial over ...

Mr Ramadan, an Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, was detained on February 2 over charges he raped two women in France, which he denies. Last week, a third woman, who wants to remain anonymous and uses the pseudonym "Marie", ...

Third rape accusation against Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan. By RFI Issued on 08-03-2018 Modified ... A third woman has accused Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape, claiming that he used threats to force her into "violent and degrading" sexual relations on about 10 occasions. Ramadan is in jail awaiting trial over ...

A third woman has accused prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape, a month after he was indicted over similar charges and remanded into ... Ramadan, a prominent TV pundit and Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, was detained on ...

Tariq Ramadan is a French-speaking, Swiss-born academic who studies Islam and philosophy more broadly and has been a professor of Islamic studies at Oxford University since September 2009. In the past often called upon by European governments to advise them on Islam, before last year he was ...

Two Muslim women have accused Ramadan, a 55-year-old Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood ... bracket and reside at a property owned by a Swiss institution in Paris did not adequately guard against the flight risk posed by the Oxford University academic.

Organizers of a 2009 conference in Lyon, which has become an important sticking point in the rape charges against Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, have published evidence that could be damaging to his defense. A woman using the pseudonym Christelle has claimed that Ramadan had sexually ...

The Swiss-born Islamic scholar, who is on a leave of absence from Oxford University following rape allegations, has had his appeal against detention on medical grounds rejected. Ramadan will remain in prison following the decision by the Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday, according to the press agency ...

Rape-accused Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan could now face charges in the United States after American attorney Rabia Chaudry revealed this week ... The Swiss academic, who is a grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, found fame after writing numerous books on Islam and the ...

Oxford professor for Islamic studies Tariq Ramadan has been taken to hospital for treatment for multiple sclerosis, the support committee for the Swiss scholar announced on Saturday. Ramadan was being held in detention near Paris amid an investigation into rape allegations against him, when he was ...

The arrest of the influential academic – a regular on TV debates with more than two million Facebook followers – has rocked the French Muslim community. Henda Ayari, a 41-year-old feminist activist who previously practised an ultra-conservative brand of Islam, claims Ramadan raped her in Paris in 2012.