Iman al-Obeidi

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Iman al-Obeidi ( Arabic إيمان العبيدي, DMG Īmān al-ʿUbaidī ; * 1982 ) is a Libyan lawyer.

Civil War in Libya

On March 26, 2011, against the backdrop of the civil war , she entered a press conference at the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel in Tripoli and accused in front of the cameras that she was by soldiers of the Gaddafi regime after she was arrested at a checkpoint in Tripoli abused and raped.

She was taken away by security forces with the help of hotel employees and the use of violence against journalists and was then held by the authorities for 72 hours. Libyan politician Moussa Ibrahim said she was deranged, drunk, a liar and a prostitute. Her family, who live in Tobruk , denied this allegation and said that Iman al-Obeidi had been offered money and a house if she publicly retracted her allegations.

According to her parents, she has meanwhile been held in Bab al-Aziziya .

With the help of a renegade Libyan army officer, Iman al-Obeidi, who had meanwhile become a symbolic figure for opponents of the Libyan regime, managed to flee to Tunis on May 5, 2011 , where she received support from Western diplomats.

After escaping Libya, Ms. Obaidi sought refuge in Qatar . At the request of the National Transitional Council, the authorities there deported her forcibly and against her will to Benghazi on June 3, 2011 . Representatives of the American government and human rights organizations expressed extreme concern over the incident. After a stay in a Romanian refugee camp in July 2011, Iman al-Obeidi was granted asylum in the United States .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Damien McElroy: Libyan woman tells journalists in Tripoli that regime's men raped and tortured her . In: The Telegraph , March 26, 2011. Archived from the original on March 26, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Blick.ch on March 28, 2011: Iman al-Obeidi apparently free again. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 10, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.blick.ch  
  3. ↑ Leela Jacinto: Rape of Iman Al-Obaidi Is Rape of Libya by Qadhafi and his Thugs. In: Al Jazeera . April 3, 2010, accessed May 11, 2011 .
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 1, 2011: The Iman al-Obeidi case: raped, kidnapped, disappeared. Retrieved May 10, 2011 .
  5. ^ CNN on May 9, 2011: CNN Exclusive: Alleged rape victim flees Libya. Retrieved May 10, 2011 .
  6. ↑ n-tv on May 9, 2011: Tortured and raped for two days. Iman al-Obaidi escapes. Retrieved May 10, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Libya rape victim Obaidi Deported to Rebel hero area. In: Washington Post . June 3, 2011, accessed June 4, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Libyan woman whose rape claims shocked the world is sent back. In: Daily Mail . June 3, 2011, accessed June 3, 2011 .
  9. ^ CNN on July 29, 2011: Alleged Libyan rape victim comes to US to stay. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 20, 2011 ; accessed on November 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / articles.cnn.com
personal data
SURNAME Obeidi, Iman al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1982