Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav has begun serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape.
Katsav, 66, was convicted a year ago of raping a former female employee when he was a cabinet minister and of sexually assaulting two other women when he was president from 2000 to 2007.
On his way to a minimum security prison in central Israel on December 7, Katsav again protested his innocence and said Israel was today "burying a man alive."
Katsav was to have entered prison in May but remained free while he appealed his conviction. Israel's Supreme Court rejected his appeal last month.
compiled from agency reports
Katsav, 66, was convicted a year ago of raping a former female employee when he was a cabinet minister and of sexually assaulting two other women when he was president from 2000 to 2007.
On his way to a minimum security prison in central Israel on December 7, Katsav again protested his innocence and said Israel was today "burying a man alive."
Katsav was to have entered prison in May but remained free while he appealed his conviction. Israel's Supreme Court rejected his appeal last month.
compiled from agency reports
