(FILES) Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan listens to his lawyers during a press conference to announced they intend to take new legal actions in Switzerland, where Ramadan was sentenced to three years in prison for rape, and in France where he is due to go on trial in March 2026 for other rapes, arguing that they have new expert evidence proving his innocence, in Paris on September 30, 2025. An 18-year prison sentence was requested on March 24, 2026, at the trial of Swiss Islamic theologian Tariq Ramadan, who is tried in absentia and behind closed doors by the Paris departmental criminal court for the rape of three women, a judicial source said. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)