Dominique Pelicot was accused of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and orchestrating her abuse by at ...

A court in France has sentenced the ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot to a maximum 20 years in jail for drugging and raping her ...

A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and ...

Seventeen men convicted in the Pelicot mass rape trial have appealed the verdict, according to the prosecutor’s office in the ...

Forty-nine of them, including Pelicot, have been convicted of aggravated rape and two of sexual assault, in a case that has horrified France and forced the country to address systemic male ...

Gisèle Pelicot said she had no regrets, but hope for the future after a judge sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her for years.

Pelicot’s ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and all but one of his co-defendants were convicted of sexually assaulting her over ...

Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse. Each morning, the queues began forming before dawn. Groups of women – always women – stood in the autumn chill on a pavement beside a ...

On Dec. 19, the courtroom in Avignon, France, as always, was packed. But this day there were even more spectators because ...

The verdict capped a trial that has horrified France, prompted profound discussions about rape culture and toxic masculinity, and turned Gisèle Pelicot, his wife of 50 years, into a feminist hero.

Instead, because she waived her anonymity and showed her face to the world during her husband’s harrowing trial, Pelicot has become a feminist folk heroine and symbol of hope in France.

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 ...