BUCHAREST, Romania – The U.N. refugee agency has appealed for privacy for a Libyan woman who claims she was raped by Moammar Gadhafi's troops.
Iman al-Obeidi, 29, made headlines around the world in March when she rushed into Libya's Rixos Hotel and told foreign reporters covering the country's pro-democracy insurgency that she had been gang-raped by Libyan troops who detained her at a checkpoint in Tripoli.
Machiel Salomons, representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Romania, said Wednesday that al-Obeidi arrived at a U.N. refugee transit center in the country on Monday afternoon. He declined to say how long she would stay, or where she would be resettled, urging respect for her "space and privacy."
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