Tariq Ramadan, a leading Muslim scholar and former Oxford University professor, presented himself as the victim of a woman who accuses him of raping her in a Geneva hotel as his trial opened in the Swiss city.
Ramadan, 60, said that the Swiss woman, who is using the name Brigitte and was in court behind a screen, had set out to seduce him after meeting at a book signing in 2008 and then accuse him of sexual misconduct to blacken his name. He denies sexual contact with her.
