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The first of several women to accuse the Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan of rape says she wants neither to ruin nor humiliate him, but to spare others what she claims to have suffered.
Henda Ayari spoke to The National as a growing international campaign portrayed Mr Ramadan as the victim of a failure of due process, not convicted but held in solitary confinement in a French jail unable to prepare his legal defence.
“I am not looking for vengeance or to destroy him,” said Ms Ayari, 41, the Muslim daughter of parents of North African origin.
“But I want Tariq Ramadan to recognise the truth, to help in the rebuilding of my own life; but also because I am fighting as a supporter of women’s rights.”