Tariq Ramadan

A Paris criminal court on March 25 sentenced 63-year-old Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, to 18 years in prison in absentia for raping three women. Despite an arrest warrant, he remains near Geneva in psychiatric treatment at the Clinique du Grand-Salève. Penalties include eight years of socio-judicial supervision and a lifetime ban from French territory.