"Gisele Pelicot, who survived almost a decade of rape involving dozens of men after she was drugged by her ex-husband, will attend court in France again on Monday after one of the men convicted of raping her faces a second trial after appealing against his verdict. Pelicot became a feminist hero after she decided to waive her right to anonymity in the 2024 trial of her former husband and 50 other men last year."
"Husamettin Dogan, 44, a builder who was sentenced to nine years in prison for raping Pelicot, has appealed against his conviction. The first trial last year heard he made contact with her then husband, Dominique Pelicot, in a chatroom and drove to the couple's home the same night in June 2019, telling his wife he was going out. He was convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot while she was unconscious."
Gisele Pelicot survived almost a decade of repeated drug-facilitated gang rapes after her then-husband Dominic Pelicot crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to assault her in Mazan. Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison for orchestrating the crimes. One convicted attacker, Husamettin Dogan, received a nine-year sentence and has appealed. Pelicot waived her right to anonymity during the 2024 trial and will attend the Nimes court of appeal to confront the appeal and assert that a rape is never trivial. Sixteen other convicted men dropped their appeals.
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