"Husamettin Dogan is the only defendant to appeal his conviction for assaulting Pelicot, a French woman whose case drew international attention. Witnesses have testified that defendant Husamettin Dogan was fully aware that Gisele Pelicot was asleep while he was assaulting her, as his appeal unfolds in a French court in the southern city of Nimes. Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, was one of 50 men convicted of sexually abusing Pelicot in a landmark case last December."
"He has been sentenced to nine years in prison, lower than the 12 years initially sought by prosecutors. Tuesday marked the second day of his appeal, and prosecutors presented evidence to contradict his claims. Witnesses included Pelicot's ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, who previously received a prison term of 20 years, the maximum sentence, for orchestrating the assaults in the former couple's home in Mazan."
"During trial last year, Dominique Pelicot admitted that, for more than a decade, he drugged his then-wife of 50 years so that he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her. He also filmed the assaults, which included at least 50 men. In Tuesday's hearing, he denied ever coercing or misleading Dogan. I never forced anyone, he said. They never needed me."
Husamettin Dogan is the sole defendant appealing a conviction that followed a landmark case in which 50 men were found to have sexually abused Gisele Pelicot. Witnesses testified that Dogan knew Pelicot was asleep during the assault. Dogan, 44, was sentenced to nine years in prison, below prosecutors' requested 12 years, and insists he believed the encounter was consensual. Prosecutors and witnesses, including Dominique Pelicot, presented evidence to contradict Dogan's claims. Dominique Pelicot previously received a 20-year sentence for orchestrating and filming assaults and admitted to drugging his wife for more than a decade so strangers could abuse her.
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