Libya: Where is Eman Al Obeidy?  · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.
“Where is Eman Al Obeidy?” has become a pressing question, after a distraught Libyan woman burst into a Tripoli hotel full of foreign journalists, telling then that scars and bruises on her face and body has been inflicted by 15 Muammar Gaddafi's militia, who arrested her at a checkpoint for two days, where they gang raped her.
The harrowing details of the story and Al Obeidy cry for help have been covered by the Press  and are being tweeted, as the world awaits to hear where the woman is, after security bundled her out of the hotel, into a car, which took her to an undisclosed location.
The Telegraph posts a video here and on Twitter, CNN‘s Nic Robertson shares the details of what happened this morning.
Twitter user @finali curates Robertson's tweets here:
— 8 tweets from Nic below: –
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Sm journalists tried to protect her, challenging officials about where they taking her but they drove off with her in white car.
6 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Clarify'g earlier tweet: bag/cloth thrown over her head, they took her into back garden, then bundled out hotel front door w/out bag/cloth
8 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Govt officls claimd she was “mentally ill” & being taken to “a hospital.” She managed to shout out they were taking her to jail.
23 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Govt offcls threw bag/cloth over woman's head, bundled her, kicking & screaming, out of hotel and into van.
24 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
CNN camera violently snatchd, systemtclly smashd to pieces & video footage stolen. Some journlsts beaten in blatant disply of regime thuggry
26 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Waitress threatnd her w/knife, calling her “traitor.” Govt offcls began beating journlsts trying to interview her.
29 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
CNN cameraman on scene said she showed journalsts bruises, scratches on thighs, bruised face, rope burns on wrists & ankles
37 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Within mins of beginning to tell her story, govt officls and hotel staff moved in to shut her up.
41 minutes ago
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Woman came into restaurant of journalists’ hotel today claiming she’d been detained at govt chkpt, held 2 days, tied up, beaten and raped.
42 minutes ago
Robertson continues that the CNN‘s camera was also smashed – and the footage taken; that journalists who demanded to see her were told by officials that they did not know who took her or where she was; and that a Libyan official said they would investigate the incident and let the Press know about her.
Here are some more reactions from Twitter:
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi thugs drag woman who cried for help in Tripoli hotel live in front of cameras http://bit.ly/igK9hs Video via @NicRobertsonCNN #Libya
@FromJoanne: The only journalist able to speak with #Libya woman at lenght (held 2days Raped By 15 men)was MichaelGeorgy&Reuters http://t.co/fjpA77F”
@hindhassan: NYT article: FT reporter Charles Clover deported afterwards for trying 2 protect #Eman Al-Obeidi &'inaccurate’ reports http://nyti.ms/eMdoxl
@RuwaydaMustafah: Let's get #WhereisEmanAlObeidy to be TT. cc @mouita @monaeltahawy @Sarahngb @3arabawy @JustAmira @SultanAlQassemi
@UnitedLibya: I wonder if there is a connection between eman al obeidi and abdulfateh younis al obeidi #gaddafi former no 2 and now with opposition
@SamSeyffert: @hrw Has HRW issued a formal request to the Gaddafi regime for the release of Eman Al Obaidi?
@libyafidammi: @hrw @amnesty Pls help us keep Eman #AlObaidi alive, keep her name on your watch list otherwise #Gaddafi regime will execute her #Libya
@niiRjaraA: Where r the Arab intellectual, societal leaders(?), common man-they took Eman's dignity stand up and demand her immmediate releasse #Libya
@thisisfifi: Shame on whoever silently watched #Eman ElObaidi crying 4 help and 4 her story 2 B heard…Thnk God 4 western journalist in #Libya
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.