Joan Kwai, the youngest of 50 men accused of the rape of Gisèle Pélicot, is giving evidence at the courtroom in Avignon today along with six other defendants in the horrifying case

The mass rape trial that has shaken France on Monday moved into its fourth week by hearing the cases against six new defendants. Among them was Joan K., who was 22 at the time of the alleged assaults,

Prosecutors say that, for almost a decade, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife to rape her, alongside dozens of other men he invited to abuse her.

One of more than 50 men accused of raping Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot in a mass rape case that has shocked the world told her in court on Thursday that he was sorry for what he did. Lionel Rodriguez is among a small number of those accused who have admitted to raping Pelicot,

Dominique Pelicot is charged with orchestrating the assault of his wife Gisèle Pelicot, drugging and offering her to a stream of men he met in a chatroom and filming the repeated rapes.

Joan Kwai, 26, is one of 50 men accused of raping Gisèle Pélicot, 71. A young man allegedly had sex with "unconscious" Gisèle Pélicot on the same day his daughter was born.