Anderson Cooper Interviews Eman Al-Obeidy, Libyan Woman Accusing Gaddafi Soldiers Of Rape & Torture

[Turborama]

Run time: 08:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoWtCC019s   Posted on YouTube: April 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: MrLIONLIBYA Views on YouTube: 9   Posted on DU: April 05, 2011 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1522

 
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewY7nlMOYOw

Post interview discussion with Nic Pobertson in Triploi & Reza Sayah in Benghazi (who tells about how she tried to escape, got to the border but was brought back to Tripoli): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsnhcirzvoE

Full Transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/04/acd.01.html

If anyone would prefer to watch them on CNN's website here are the links...

Part 1: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/05/video-libyan-woman-speaks-out-about-rape/

Part 2: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/05/video-alleged-libyan-rape-victim-speaks-out/

Post interview discussion: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/05/video-alleged-rape-victim-stuck-in-tripoli/

(CNN) -- Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to tell journalists she was beaten and raped by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last month, is no longer in custody but says she still fears for her life.

In two telephone interviews with CNN's "AC360," al-Obeidy spoke about her alleged abuse. At times in tears, at other times defiant, she recalled men pouring alcohol into her eyes and repeatedly using rifles to sodomize her. Al-Obeidy said has since been stopped trying to leave Libya and that she has nightmares.

"My life is in danger, and I call on all human rights organization ... to expose the truth and to let me leave now. I am being held hostage here," she said. "They have threatened me with death and told me I will never leave prison again, if I go to the journalists or tell them anything about what's happening in Tripoli."

Al-Obeidy said she spent 72 hours under interrogation after being dragged away from the Tripoli hotel where she tried to tell journalists about her alleged abuse.

Interrogators poured water on her face and threw food at her during the relentless questioning, which ended only after she was examined by a doctor to prove she had been raped, al-Obeidy said. "And when the test came, it verified that I was raped and tortured ... then I was freed."

Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/04/libya.rape.case/index.html?hpt=T1

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Original OP about this in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4788098">Libyan woman (pleas for reporters to help her & is) dragged from press by Gaddafi forces (Pic Heavy)

Video reports of the incident in the hotel collated here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x567036">Libya: Woman Pleads With Foreign Reporters For Help Before Gaddafi's Thugs Violently Take Her Away

Reactions: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4789507">Protests in Benghazi over Libyan woman's rape and detention in Tripoli



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[pinboy3niner]

1. K&R

Those are powerful interviews!

[Turborama]

4. Thanks for the K&R, man. They sure are very powerful.

The wife and I were in tears when we watched them.

[FourScore]

2. Wow. She is my new hero. n/t

[Turborama]

5. She is an extremely brave woman. I hope she's OK now. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

10. She is an eloquent and compelling speaker for herself and for the people of Libya nt

She is an eloquent and compelling speaker for herself and for the people of Libya nt

[Raksha]

14. She's an incredibly brave woman.

Her actions directly challenge every stereotype I ever had about Muslim women. Speaking out the way she did would be brave by the standards of a more liberated culture, or what I normally think of as a more liberated culture anyway. But Eman al-Obeidy would not allow her attackers to shame her into silence, which is what everyone expects and what the Gaddafi government was clearly counting on. And it probably works 9 times out of 10, or even 99 times out of 100. Why didn't it work in her case?

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[defendandprotect]

8. That's nonsense -- Clearly, Gaddafi is using rape as a tool of war -- !!

Coincidentally, doctors at the hospitals treating Gaddafi's wounded forces

also have related that they are finding both Viagra and Condoms on their person.

Certainly, all of us at DU need our BS meters turned up way higher -- but let's

turn our attention to our two disgraceful and wars based on lies going on 10 years

now which we rarely hear a peep about here at DU!!

And, let's turn our attention as well to our own stolen elections, our own need to

deal with elected officials in both parties betraying citizens on every issue!

And, to our own government's torture and wiretapping --

Today's call in day re the Patriot Act -- Encourge Obama to let it lapse!!

http://www.groundreport.com/World/Using-rape-as-a-tool-of-war-by-Gaddafi-forces/2937418

[defendandprotect]

7. Yahoo is carrying part of this story now -- and thank you for additional info -- !!

[FourScore]

9. kick

[hiwaar]

11. horrible

they should not go away with it. We insist
www.hiwaar.com

[joshcryer]

12. Kick!

:hi:

Good report, Turborama. Put it in the daily thread.

[pinboy3niner]

13. Kick

[Raksha]

15. Too late to recommend, but kicking anyway.