French court increases sentence for man who raped Gisele Pelicot

Gisele Pelicot outside the courthouse in Nimes, southern France (Lewis Joly/AP)

A French appeals court has handed a stiffer 10-year sentence to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious, French media reported.

Husamettin Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the first drugging-and-rape trial last year that riveted France and turned Ms Pelicot into a global figure against sexual violence.