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Journalists please leave Rixos Hotel in Tripoli

Journalists please leave Rixos Hotel in Tripoli

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Started by Anonymous 15 years, 4 months ago
To: Western Media Organisations The Libyan woman, Eman al Obeidi, was agressed by the staff of the Hotel Rixos al Nasr in Tripoli on 26th March 2011 when she was trying to denounce a multiple rape by Gaddafi militiamen after being arrested in a check-point in Tripoli. Al Obeidi was talking to the international Press when she was agressed by the staff of the hotel and by thugs. One of the journalists who tried to stop the thughs was beaten, another one pointed with a gun and some cameras were broken. Before she was violently removed by the staff of the hotel, put in a government car and disappear, al Obeidi told the Press that she was raped by 15 men during two days. The militiamen urinated and defecated on her, too. Those are her allegations. Most of the International media journalists in Tripoli are staying at that hotel wich costs 450 euros a single room per night. Some have been there for weeks. Besides suffering a "the facto" house arrest situation, no freedom of movements to double check the informations provided by the Regime and absolute no access to civilians, the journalists at Rixos hotel have been agressed, even, at that very fancy hotel. Please sign this petition to obtain that all Western journalists at the Rixos leave the hotel. CNN, BBC, SKYNEWS, FRANCE 2, Al JAZEERA and others can't no longer stay there after what happened to Eman al Obeidi. Sign this petition and we will send it to all the Media organisations with journalists currently booked at the hotel. Sincerely,

Updates

March 27, 2011

The silence from the major networks is heavy and frankly expected at this point. I am continuing to reach out to these organizations to demand they stop giving money to the very people overseeing these abuses. It is exhausting work but we cannot let them ignore what happened to Eman while they stay in those rooms.

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Kevin Hughes
15 years ago Featured

What happened to that poor woman is horrific. The Rixos is a golden cage for those reporters. Leave now.

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Mark Saunders
15 years ago Featured

How can they call themselves journalists if they are just puppets for the regime. leave the hotel and report the truth for once.

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David Hughes
15 years ago Featured

absolute joke. watching CNN act like they are actually getting real news from inside that building is pathetic. wake up.

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Sarah Malhotra
15 years ago Featured

Sickening. They are useless in that hotel. Just being used as propaganda.

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Elena Schmidt
15 years ago Featured

Boycott the Rixos. If they stay they are complicit.

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Ahmed Rogers
15 years ago Featured

Get out of there. You are not reporting anything you are just prisoners who pay to stay prisoner.

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