Thousands of people have joined protests in support of Gisèle Pelicot in France. Women have stood outside the court every day ...

French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband has been jailed for 20 years after drugging and raping her, and inviting dozens of strangers to also abuse her over nearly a decade. Dominique Pelicot, ...

Little did Gisèle Pelicot or the rest of France know that in the course of the next three and a half months, her plight would trigger global soul-searching about rape culture and consent. It would ...

Gisèle Pelicot told her daughter Caroline Darian to sit down in a quiet spot - because she had to tell her child her father ...

On Sept 2, a discreet, camera-shy pensioner with a red bob and dark glasses walked tentatively into the Vaucluse criminal court in Avignon, southern France ... s a field of ruins.

She had no idea that, in his late 50s and nearing retirement, her husband Dominique Pelicot had been spending a lot of time ...

Judges in the French city of Avignon will hand down verdicts on 51 ... Campaigners say this case proves the need for consent to be built into France's rape laws, as in other European countries.

It was Gisèle Pelicot's decision to open the case to the public that has given the trial international significance [CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP] Judges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced ...

Now their three children Caroline, David and Florian were grown, the couple were planning to soon retire and move to Mazan, a village of 6,000 people in ... a courtroom in Avignon, not far from ...

Outside a courthouse in Avignon, France, on Thursday ... has been clear that behind her facade of strength "lies a field of ruins" and despite the widespread acclaim for what she has done ...