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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 02:39 AM Friday

Husamettin Dogan, 44, Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq65e2jdd3lo


snip-"A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

The 72-year-old retired grandmother was drugged unconscious by her then-husband Dominique for over a decade and raped by dozens of men he recruited on the internet.

Husamettin Dogan, 44, had argued he was innocent, despite graphic video footage shown in court of him penetrating a motionless Gisèle Pelicot.

But the court of appeal in Nîmes rejected his argument and extended his original nine-year jail term to 10 years. He was convicted of aggravated rape last December, during a trial in which 50 other men were convicted."


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Husamettin Dogan, 44, Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term (Original Post) irisblue Friday OP
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