(Reuters) -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, his lawyer said.

Husamettin Dogan was the only one of 51 men convicted in last year’s harrowing mass rape trial, which stunned France and attracted worldwide attention, to appeal against his guilty verdict.

Pelicot’s husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her over nearly a decade, recruiting dozens of men online to rape her while she was unconscious. All of the Frenchman’s 50 co-defendants were found guilty of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.

Gisele Pelicot, 72, emerged as a prominent feminist figure in France and abroad after waiving her right to anonymity and testifying ag

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