Libyan Minders Snatch Rape Victim
A shocking scene occurred in Tripoli on Saturday when a gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials.
A visibly very distressed woman burst into the breakfast room of the hotel where we are staying and attempted to speak out about an ordeal at the hands of Gaddafi supporters.
We were having breakfast in our hotel when the woman broke in and said she'd been picked up at a checkpoint in the city. She claimed she had been held for two days, and that she had been raped and tortured.
As journalists tried to speak to her, things got out of control and the police minders waded in, trying to physically shut her up and stop her talking. The woman was gagged by hand and taken away by minders.
In the commotion a gun was pointed towards the Sky News team in an attempt to stop them filming. A team from another news organisation had their camera smashed in front of them.
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