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STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Eman al-Obeidy accused Libyan security forces of rape in March<\/li>\n
  • She says she has fled to Tunisia with help from a defecting military officer<\/li>\n
  • She is hoping for protection from a western government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    (CNN)<\/strong> — Eman al-Obeidy, who garnered worldwide attention for her vocal rape allegations against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, says she has fled Libya, fearing for her safety.<\/p>\n

    Al-Obeidy told CNN that she crossed into Tunisia on Thursday with the help of a defecting military officer and his family.<\/p>\n

    She said she left Tripoli in a military car, wearing a head cover that hid everything except one eye.<\/p>\n

    Al-Obeidy said she entered at the Dahibah border crossing disguised “in the local manner” and was not challenged. She described the trip from Tripoli as “very tiring.”<\/p>\n

    Along the road to Tunisia, the car she was in was stopped several times at check points, al-Obeidy said. The military officer would show his permit and they would be allowed to continue, she said.<\/p>\n

    Al-Obeidy said she crossed into Tunisia using a refugee document.<\/p>\n

    French diplomats drove her from the border region to Tunis, and are giving her sanctuary there while she considers her future, according to Western diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n

    She said she was afraid she was being followed and might still be in danger, adding that she hoped she could obtain protection from a western government.<\/p>\n

    “I still do not know what I am going to do. Of course I’d like to see my family,” she said.<\/p>\n

    Al-Obeidy burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli on March 26 while international journalists staying there were having breakfast. She told reporters she had been taken from a checkpoint east of Tripoli and held against her will for two days while being beaten and raped by 15 men.<\/p>\n

    In an interview with CNN last month, she said she felt defeated and lived in fear that she would be punished gravely for her words.<\/p>\n

    “I usually get harassed when I have to show my Identification card to government officials somewhere and they find out who I am and that I have put complaints forward against Gadhafi’s people,” she said. “They humiliate me to the point where other people gather around and start saying that it is shameful to treat a Libyan woman that way.”<\/p>\n

    The legal proceedings in her rape case have not gone far, she said last month. She also had not been able to go home.<\/p>\n

    CNN’s Khalil Abdallah contributed to this report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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