A French court on Thursday found Dominique Pelicot guilty and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot over a nine-year period from 2011 ...

The trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men for the rape of his now ex-wife, Gisele, has been a case without precedent. Not just in France, but in Europe – for the scale of the crime ...

When the verdict came down in the Gisèle Pelicot trial, it made international headlines. For nearly a decade, Gisèle’s ...

However, 17 of the 49 men who were convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Ms Pelicot at Dominique's behest have said they ...

Pelicot's case triggered protests across France, and there was hope among some demonstrators that the case could lead to changes in controversial French laws governing sexual consent. France ...

French judges have sentenced Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of aggravated rape and drugging her. Fifty other men were found guilty in the mass rape trial ...

Judges have delivered verdicts on the defendants in a case that turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon.

With domestic violence complaints in France doubling since 2016, she said, the Pelicot case highlights the fact that women are most at risk at home, threatened by partners. For Blandine ...

the ex-husband of 72-year-old Gisele Pelicot, to 20 years imprisonment for repeatedly drugging her and recruiting men to rape her while she was unconscious in a case that stunned France and the world.

She had no idea that, in his late 50s and nearing retirement, her husband Dominique Pelicot had been spending a lot of time ...

Around late September, staff manning the phones at 39 19, France's main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case ... his wife Gisele and ...

after the verdict of the Avignon court on the Mazan mass rape case, in front of the courthouse in Paris, France, December 19, 2024. The slogan reads "Thank you Gisele". Two women hold placards in ...