An expelled Yale University student who was acquitted of sex assault charges in 2018 is now suing 15 women’s advocacy groups and an attorney for defamation after being called a “rapist” in a court brief that they filed in a 2022 proceeding.
Saifullah Khan, a 31-year-old Afghanistan native, said the organizations, which include the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence and the National Women’s Law Center, repeated his accuser’s allegations as fact, such as writing, “When Jane Doe was in college, the Plaintiff raped her” and referring to Khan as “her rapist.”
While that language was amended, Khan says his reputation was harmed and that he has suffered “economic and non-economic damages.” His lawsuit, which seeks financial damages, said the original draft brief “remains published, indefinitely” on the Connecticut Judicial Branch website and was also published online by the women’s advocacy groups and for donors…