A French appeals court has handed a longer 10-year sentence to the only man to challenge his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious.

Construction worker Husamettin Dogan, 44, was the only one of 51 men convicted last December in the harrowing mass rape trial to appeal against his verdict.

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The trial was covered around the world and turned Ms Pelicot into a global icon after she opposed a closed hearing - a demand made by several defendants. The court sided with her.

Those convicted included Dominique Pelicot, Ms Pelicot's ex-husband, who knocked her unconscious by lacing her food and drink with drugs before offering her to

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