A French court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a former construction worker found guilty last year of the aggravated rape of Gisele Pelicot, and increased his prison sentence by a year to 10 years, France Info reported. A lawyer for Husamettin Dogan did not respond to a request for comment on her client's failed appeal. Pelicot returned to court this week to face the only man, out of 51, who appealed his guilty verdict. Her husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her over nearly a decade, recruiting dozens of men online to rape her while she was unconscious. Gisele Pelicot, 72, emerged as a prominent feminist figure in France and abroad after waiving her right to anonymity and testifying against her alleged abusers in court — a move that turned the trial into a broader reckoning over the prevalence of sexual violence.
