Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan goes on trial accused of rape

Islamic studies scholar, who took leave of absence from Oxford University in 2017, is also accused of sexual coercion

The prominent Swiss academic and Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan has gone on trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion.

The 60-year-old told the court he denied allegations that he carried out an attack on a Swiss woman in a Geneva hotel in 2008.