The prominent Swiss academic and Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan has been acquitted of charges of rape and sexual coercion against a woman in a Geneva hotel in 2008.
Ramadan was awarded around 151,000 Swiss francs ($167,000) in compensation from the Swiss canton of Geneva over the case.
The lawyer for the complainant immediately announced that she would appeal. The woman, a Swiss convert to Islam, had told the court she was raped on 28 October 2008.
