Libyan Rape Victim Forcibly Repatriated from Qatar

[YankeeFan]

Nic Robertson is reporting on the story of Eman Al Obeidy

http://twitter.com/#!/NicRobertsonCNN

She's the woman who burst into the Western reporter's hotel in Tripoli to tell of her rape at the hands of Gaddafi's thugs.

She eventually got to Tunisia and then Qatar.

She's now been forced to return to Libya -- the Eastern part of Libya apparently, but Libya nonetheless.

Confusing and terrible story.

 

[YankeeFan]

**** Qatar and **** FIFA too while we're at it:

ABC News’ Alex Marquardt reports:

Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who dramatically burst into a Tripoli hotel where journalists were staying accusing Gadhafi forces of gang raping her, was deported from Qatar back to Libya Thursday.

Al-Obeidi fled to Tunisia and then to Qatar following her arrest and subsequent release. Vincent Cochetel, the spokesman for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told ABC News Monday that al-Obeidi was flown to eastern Libya at midday on military plane since there are no commercial flights into Benghazi.

Cochetel says al-Obeidi feared returning to Libya and that she was sent back “by force.”

Officially, al-Obeidi was deported because she had overstayed her visa, despite her refugee status in Qatar. The UNHCR says this is the first time Qatar has abruptly forced a deportation before they could find another resettlement country.

UNHCR says Al Obeidi is now in a Benghazi hotel.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/woman-who-claimed-rape-by-gadhafi-forces-returned-to-libya.html

 

[Stitch]

Does anyone really expect any Arab country to uphold women's (and just basic human) rights?

 

[YankeeFan]

Hopefully she'll be able to start a new life in America soon:

A Libyan woman who claims she was raped by Moammar Gadhafi's troops has arrived at a U.N. refugee center in Romania, an official said Tuesday.

Iman al-Obeidi, 29, made headlines around the world in March when she rushed into Libya's Rixos Hotel and told foreign reporters covering the country's pro-democracy insurgency that she had been gang raped by Libyan troops who detained her at a checkpoint in Tripoli.

Since then, al-Obeidi's ordeal has taken her to Tunisia, Qatar, Italy and now Romania, and her sister says the refugee's ultimate goal is to start a new life in the United States.

She is staying at the U.N. refugee transit center in the western Romanian city of Timisoara, the only one of its kind in Europe. It is a temporary haven for refugees from around the world awaiting resettlement to a third country.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/07/world/middleeast/AP-Libya-Woman-Attacked.html?hp