Fight as Libyan woman dragged from press by Gaddafi forces

A brawl is sparked as a Libyan woman makes a plea for help at a Tripoli hotel full of foreign journalists before being bundled away by government minders. 

 

Eman al-Obeidy displayed a broad bruise on her face, a large scar on her upper thigh, several narrow and deep scratch marks lower on her leg, and marks that seemed to come from binding around her hands and feet.

A distressed Libyan woman made a desperate plea for help on Saturday, slipping into a Tripoli hotel full of foreign journalists to show bruises and scars she said had been inflicted on her by Muammar Gaddafi's militiamen.

The woman, Iman al-Obeidi, said forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi detained her at a checkpoint in the Libyan capital and raped her.

As reporters gathered to hear her story, security guards grabbed the woman and attempted to hood her before bundling her into a car and driving her away.

The plain-clothed government minders then shoved back and fought with reporters who tried to intervene and film the incident.

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