Updates: Eman's cousin and mother have spoken out

http://feb17.info/...

Eman goes to her sister (Amal) in Tripoli and stays with her since she (Amal) has kids. They are a conservative family, and always together. So the other day while she was passing through a checkpoint in Tripoli, they held her and raped her.... She visits her sister alot. Amal is married with children.

Her husband is Salah Al Deenali, who they (government) might say was killed. According to what Eman is saying they killed him and kidnapped her nephew as well.... After they took her away, her family held a funeral since they are assuming she is dead by now. The funeral is not only for her but for her sister’s husband. Her sister’s son is kidnapped as well. In the clip we saw, she said they killed Salah and they kidnapped Hamad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...



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....Hasan Modeer, a rebel activist who was with Obaidi's mother in Tobruk, said a government official had called Ahmed at 3 a.m. Sunday, asking her to convince her daughter to change her story. “They said they will give her a new house and a lot of money and anything she wanted,” Modeer said, adding that Ahmed had relayed the message to her daughter by phone but that Obaidi had refused. “She said, ‘I will die rather than change my words,’ ” Modeer said..... “Inshallah [God willing], I will see her again,” she said. “We will force Gaddafi down. France, Obama, America, please come and save my daughter.”

After major stonewalling, assertions that she was drunk and/or mentally ill, and a shouting match at a press conference, Libya has finally released an official statement claiming that Eman's case was a criminal one involving a small number of alleged rapists (she told reporters that some 15 men had assaulted her), and that it might be possible to see her in a few days.

Eman is but one of those abducted by regime forces in Libya in recent weeks. We have no idea how many of these people are still alive, or under what conditions they are being held. But even for Qaddafi the light of publicity might, perhaps, be enough to save a few lives - maybe even the life of this brave woman.

In any event, her story must be told.

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