Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was denied bail in France Tuesday, judicial sources said, four days after he was remanded in custody on charges of rape that have sown divisions in the Muslim community.
Two Muslim women have accused Ramadan, a 55-year-old Oxford University professor whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, of rape.
They went public with the allegations late last year when women began sharing accounts of sexual harassment and assault as part of the “Me Too” and “Balance Ton Porc” (Expose your pig) campaign triggered by the revelations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.