Reply #42: Editorial: Speaking Out Against Crimes in Libya (Eman al-Obeidi)

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Speaking Out Against Crimes in Libya


Ms.al-Obedei's desperate revelations appear to be a determined decision to free herself from the fear and terror that her abusers hoped would silence her.


04-01-2011

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A Libyan government spokesman has accused Ms. al-Obeidi of being a drunkard, a mental case, and a prostitute. He also announced she will be charged with slander.

In a television interview, Ms. al-Obeidi's mother, draped in the flag of the anti-Gadhafi opposition, said her daughter is a lawyer, and that she herself had been offered money to induce her daughter to retract her story, which the mother refused to do.

Ms. al-Obeidi's story of rape and abuse, and reports that she may have been targeted because of anti-regime sympathies or connections, cannot be confirmed. But the fact that she spoke out is telling.

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Ms.al-Obedei's desperate revelations appear to be a determined decision to free herself from the fear and terror that her abusers hoped would silence her. She deserves to be released from the injustices of the Gadhafi regime.


http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Speaking-Out-Against-Crimes-in-Libya-119098599.html