A French appeals court handed a stiffer 10-year sentence to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious, French media reports.

Husamettin Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the first drugging-and-rape trial last year that riveted France and turned Pelicot into a global icon against sexual violence.

The appeals jury was composed of three judges as well as ordinary citizens.

The first trial that gave Dogan a lesser sentence was heard by five judges.

The 50 other men convicted last December did not appeal the landmark verdict.

They included Dominique Pelicot, Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband, who knocked her unconscious by lacing her food and drink with drugs and offered her to

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