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

Dominique Pelicot, the now ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot, 72, was sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of drugging her and inviting strangers to rape her

Speaking in court on Thursday, Dominique Pelicot said: "I am guilty of what I did. I subjected my wife, my children, my grandchildren to this. I regret what I did. I ask for forgiveness even if it is

AVIGNON, France (AP) — French judges plan to deliver hugely anticipated verdicts on Thursday in a historic drugging-and-rape trial that has turned the victim, Gisèle Pelicot, into a feminist hero. Everything about the trial in the southern French city of Avignon has been exceptional, most of all Pelicot herself.

A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing dozens of other men to rape her while she was unconscious

Dominique Pelicot will not appeal against his 20-year sentence for orchestrating the mass rape of his former wife Gisèle Pelicot in a case that horrified France and turned a 72-year-old grandmother into a feminist idol.