17:57 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA Libyan woman who said she was raped by supporters of Col Muammar Gaddafi has left eastern Libya for the US, according to her sister.<\/p>\n
Eman al-Obeidi was heading from the rebel-held city of Benghazi to Washington DC, her sister Marwa said.<\/p>\n
Eman al-Obeidi’s case came to attention when she rushed into Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel in March and told her story to foreign journalists staying there.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Ms Obeidi was deported from Qatar.<\/p>\n
She had sought refuge there after arriving from Libya, via Tunisia.<\/p>\n
Dispute in Qatar<\/span><\/p>\nIn Benghazi, Ms Obeidi’s home city, Marwa al-Obeidi said a human rights group helped by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had organised for Eman and their father to travel in a private plane to Washington, via Malta and Austria.<\/p>\n
“We just want a chance for her to be treated psychologically and to rest,” she told the Associated Press news agency. “My sister has just been through so much.”<\/p>\n
She also said Qatari authorities had been friendly to her sister until a few hours before she was made to leave.<\/p>\n
“Eman wanted to travel directly to America from Qatar, but for some logistical reasons, Qatar wouldn’t allow it.”<\/p>\n
As Ms Obeidi recounted her story to reporters in in March, government minders grabbed her and dragged her away.<\/p>\n
She vanished for several days before turning up in Tunisia.<\/p>\n
Ms Obeidi said she had escaped with the help of defecting military officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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