Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan held over rape accusations

Prominent Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a leading professor at Oxford University, was detained on Wednesday last week in France, where he is facing allegations of rape, reports The Local France.

Ramadan was summoned for questioning to a Paris police station and taken into custody "as part of a preliminary inquiry in Paris into rape and assault allegations", the source said, confirming a report by RTL radio. The leading Oxford professor, whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement, is facing investigations in France for the alleged rape of two women. Ramadan has denied the accusations as a "campaign of lies launched by my adversaries".

One of his accusers Henda Ayari, a former Muslim fundamentalist who says Ramadan raped her in a Paris hotel room in 2012, said she was encouraged to speak out against him publicly by the ‘Me Too’ campaign sweeping the world.
Full report on The Local France site