Switzerland’s supreme court said Thursday it had rejected an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan against his rape conviction, but his lawyers said he would take the case to Europe’s rights court.

“The Federal Court dismissed Tariq Ramadan’s appeal against the conviction for rape and sexual coercion handed down by the Geneva Court of Justice,” the high court said in a statement.

Ramadan’s lawyers Yael Hayat and Guerric Canonica said in a statement sent to AFP: “The defence takes note of the decision by the Federal Court and contests it.”

They added that “the final word will belong to the European Court of Human Rights”.

After being acquitted in 2023, a Geneva appeals court last year found the 63-year-old former Oxford University professor “guilty of rape and sexual coercion” of a wo

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