He claims he will not flee the country to escape justice, but we shall see. He has to hand over his passport, but that is not an insurmountable obstacle. The accusations are extremely serious, and the case is being investigated in an atmosphere of Muslim Brotherhood thuggery: one of his accusers has already been beaten and threatened.

That’s not the only violent aspect of the Ramadan case. One accuser said he subjected her to “blows to the face and body, forced sodomy, rape with an object and various humiliations, including being dragged by the hair to the bathtub and urinated on.”

Another one of his accusers said he told her he was raping her because she didn’t wear a hijab.

“Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wins bail in France rape case,” AFP, November 15, 2018: