Libya Rape

• Manila to Evacuate 13,000 Amid Renewed Libya Clashes

  The Philippines was preparing on Thursday to evacuate 13,000 citizens from Libya as violence raged and after a Filipino worker was beheaded and a nurse was gang-raped there.

• Philippines to Ferry Workers From Libya After Beheading And Rape

  The Philippines dispatched its foreign minister on Thursday to oversee the evacuation of 13,000 citizens from Libya after a Filipino construction worker was beheaded and a nurse gang-raped there.

• Prosecutor says Gaddafi ordered mass rape

  The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday he was investigating whether Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi provided Viagra-type drugs to Libyan soldiers to promote the rape of women during the current conflict.Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office had "information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were agai...

• Libyan woman is sued over rape accusation

  In the latest turn in the case of Eman al-Obeidy, a Libyan woman apprehended by security forces for trying to tell journalists that she had been raped by members of the Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's militia, a government spokesman said Tuesday that the unidentified militia members she accused had filed a civil case against her. (Read: Woman accuses Gad...

• Libyans call woman who claimed gang rape a prostitute

  The Libyan authorities on Sunday attacked the character and credibility of a Libyan woman who burst into a hotel full of foreign journalists to say that she had been abducted and raped by militia members working for Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, calling her "a known prostitute and a thief." The woman, Eman al-Obeidy, has become well known in Libya and a...

• Woman accuses Gaddafi's men of rape

  A Libyan government spokesman told reporters on Sunday that allegations made against four Gaddafi militiamen by a woman claiming Libyan troops had raped her are being investigated.Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said the woman, Iman al-Obeidi, was now free and with her family and that the attorney general was looking into the case.Al-Obe...

• Libya says woman claiming rape is now free

  The Libyan government says a woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her is now with her family.The government says four men were interrogated in the case, including the son of a high-ranking police officer. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim alleged that the woman was a prostitute who refused ...