Eman al-Obeidy is a young woman who is accusing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces of gang-raping her. Al-Obeidy left Libya and went to Qatar to seek shelter as a refugee, but was reportedly beaten and then deported back to Libya on Thursday. Al-Obeidy told CNN that while in Qatar, guards were blocking a UN refugee officer from entering her hotel room to provide her with papers that he had prepared for her. When she was deported from Qatar, the guards had taken all of her belongings and had beaten her, her sister, and her parents then handcuffed them and put them on a military plane back to Libya. In regard to al-Obeidy's experience, the United States has claimed that this is a "breach of humanitarian norms." Senator Hillary Clinton has been following her case.
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Summarized by: Heather Krizka
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