This archive report was first published on 25 August 2019.
On May 25, 2019, a woman in her 50s filed a criminal complaint against Tariq Ramadan, a 56-year-old Islamic scholar, alleging that he and a member of his staff raped her at a hotel in Lyon, France, in May 2014.
According to judicial sources, the woman also accused Ramadan of issuing threats or acts of intimidation aimed at dissuading her from reporting the alleged attack to the police.
Ramadan, a professor at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave in 2017 due to rape allegations, has denied charges of raping a disabled woman in 2009 and a feminist activist in 2012.
He was taken into custody in February 2018 and held for nine months before being granted bail.
Authorities in Switzerland are also investigating him after receiving a rape complaint in that country.
His lawyer, Emmanuel Marsigny, refused to comment on the latest allegations against him in France.
