Abuse
Mar 26 2011, Wa'd

On Saturday the 26th of March, 2011, Eman al-Obaidi, a Libyan lady, has entered a hotel full of foreign journalists in Tripoli/Libya to tell her story of being raped and abused by Qathafi’s militia.

As the woman cried and pleaded for help,...

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