✮ 2011.03 LIBYAN Woman Claims Rape By Soldiers, Is Dragged Away ✮

✮ 2011.03 LIBYAN Woman Disrupts Press Conference ✮
RIPOLI, Libya — A distraught Libyan woman stormed into a Tripoli hotel Saturday to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her, setting off a brawl when hotel staff and government minders tried to detained her.

Iman al-Obeidi was tackled by waitresses and government minders as she sat telling her story to journalists after she rushed into the restaurant at the Rixos hotel where a number of foreign journalists were eating breakfast.

She claimed loudly that troops had detained her a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her, then led her away to be gang raped.

Her story could not be independently verified, but the dramatic scene provided a rare firsthand glimpse of the brutal crackdown on public dissent by Moammar Gadhafi's regime as the Libyan leader fights a rebellion against his rule that began last month.

The regime has been keeping up a drumbeat of propaganda in the Tripoli-centered west of the country under its control even as it faces a weeklong international air campaign against the Libyan military.

At a hastily arranged press conference after the incident, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said investigators had told him the woman was drunk and possibly mentally challenged.

Before she was dragged out of the hotel, al-Obeidi managed to tell journalists that she was detained by a number of troops at a Tripoli checkpoint on Wednesday. She said they were drinking whiskey and handcuffed her. She said 15 men later raped her.

"They tied me up ... they even defecated and urinated on me," she said, her face streaming with tears. "The Gadhafi militiamen violated my honor."

The woman, who appeared in her 30's, wore a black robe and a floral scarf around her neck and identified herself. She had scratches on her face and she pulled up her black robe to reveal a bloodied thigh. She said neighbors in the area where she was detained helped her escape.

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[katia711able]

yes she is a victim of brutal men world

[Rick98RJ]

Is Eman a victim, or an agent provocateur using a "women's issue" to elicit liberal western support for an escalation in this new war, & support the lie that Muslims are sexually repressed monsters, & that a promiscuous secular culture would ensure such things would never happen? Never forget the "babies in the incubator" hoax in Iraq, that escalated the war, the rape & murder of Iraqis. Watch this on youtube: CTE Kuwaiti baby incubator lies Barry Zwicker

[lisalrocks]

I was thinking the same thing, but there is no justice over there. It's not like getting arrested in a humane society where people have rights. They could drag you away and you may never make it back home.

[kaysniper]

after further reading it looks like she was tortured and raped by the police. security at a checkpoint, and when you are a woman and your own counties security has done this to you, you have no where to turn to, she chose the media as an outlet, a brave decisioned by this courageous woman.

[gomauro]

Where are the BALLS in the room? SOme things are worth dying for and a woman being dragged away is one of them.

How is it that a bad apple can intimidate an entire barrel?

[jade14116]

the arab world(leaders) 9/10 are all f'ed up gaddafis/saddams/osamas...look at em? what a f'ed up mess they've made....holy war eh (backfired)!

[DARIANSEAD]

MAY ALLAH DESTROY gadafi AMEEN YARRAB

[fahd08]

she's saying they are taking me to jail jail not hospital

[classic715]

GHADAFI'S SHAME.

[greenorangeviolet]

SICK.