Women who defied al-Gaddafi regime not spared from brutal jails

By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s researcher in Libya.
One of the grimmest features of the armed conflict in Libya has been the spate of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of thousands of suspected opponents of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi. Some are still missing, while those who have been freed bring back tales of torture, rape and […]