Topic: War and Peace News - on March 28, 2011 at 8:31:00 AM CEST
Eman al-Obeidi has been released by Gaddafi forces. Her mother tells reporters she is proud of her daughter
The mother of a woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel and said that she had been raped by government militiamen hailed her daughter as a hero Sunday and said government officials offered her money and a house to change her story.
Aisha Ahmed, contacted by telephone at her home in Tobruk, in the rebel-held eastern part of the country, said she was proud of the courage displayed by her daughter, Iman al-Obaidi, whose outburst Saturday was broadcast worldwide.
“I am very happy, very proud,” said Ahmed, who described her daughter as a 26-year-old law student in Tripoli.
washingtonpost.com telegraph.co.uk
UPDATE ON EMAN: There are unconfirmed claims by the Gaddafi Regime that Eman was released and is safe. There is NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE to support their claims. The Regime's history with making false statements gives us EVERY REASON to fear for her safety and continue to demand her immediate release.
update:
Family of Eman Al-Obeidi DENY claims she is free, sister now missing too
Libyan press has announced that Eman has now been freed, and is resting at home with her mother and sisters. She may be giving an interview to one or two female reporters, they promised. A Gadaffi spokesman has told foreign press that five men, one of whom may be the son of a top-ranking Police Officer, have been arrested in connection with the alleged beating, torture and rape of Eman Al-Obeidi. None of this can be confirmed by journalists, who are held captive in the hotel in Tripoli where the woman approached them Saturday. Her family, however, deny that this is true. In fact, they say, her sister Amal has also been detained. They received a phone call last night from a government spokesman at three a.m. offering them a new house, money, anything they wished as long as they retracted Eman's statement.... Comment
