Iman al-Obeidi

Iman al-Obeidi (also spelled Eman al-Obeidy; Arabic: إيمان العبيدي  pronounced [ʔiːˈmæːn əlʕʊˈbeːdi]; born circa 1982) is a former Libyan postgraduate law student who received worldwide media attention during the Libyan Civil War. This was because she burst into the restaurant of the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told the international press corps there that Libyan troops had beaten and gang-raped her. Her public statement challenged both the Gaddafi government and the taboo against discussing sex crimes in Libya.

Quotes

• I was fighting them off so much that they tied my legs and arms together. They were drinking a lot, and they would spill the alcohol in my eyes
• And they would kick my head with their boots.
• the men would come in groups of three and repeatedly rape her
• the ringleader was a man she recognized — the son of a government minister. She says he was the most brutal
  • Libyan Woman Tells Her Story Of Rape, Uncensored,April 12, 2011,by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
• Every time he would try to rape me, I would push him away with my legs, and he would scratch my thighs from both sides to force me
• For two days this happened to me
• They raped me again really early in the morning on the third day. They were totally drunk. A lot of them just passed out.
• I was in a big room with the other woman. They were raping her, too, but she wasn't fighting back so they didn't tie her up. I asked the other woman to please try to untie me. ... It took awhile to convince the other woman to help me
  • Libyan Woman Tells Her Story Of Rape, Uncensored,April 12, 2011,by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
• The guards were shocked to see a bleeding naked woman with wild hair holding a piece of metal," she says. "So they opened the gate for me and I just ran out
• [The neighbors] put me in a taxi, paid the fare, and I told the taxi driver to take me to the hotel [where the journalists are staying]
  • Libyan Woman Tells Her Story Of Rape, Uncensored,April 12, 2011,by Lulu Garcia-Navarro