Libyan Woman

• Prostitution trial linked to Gaddafi's son opens in France

  Two men and a woman appeared in a French court on Monday in a case over a Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring that had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moammer Gaddafi.

• 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...

• Libyan woman struggles to tell media of her rape

  A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of the Gaddafi militia. After nearly an hour, she was dragged away from the hotel screaming. "They say that we are all Libyans and we are one people," said the...