A shocking scene occurred in Tripoli on Saturday when a gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials. A visibly very distressed woman burst into the breakfast room of the hotel where we are staying and attempted to speak out about an ordeal at the hands of Gaddafi supporters.
As correspondents here in Tripoli under the supervision of the Libyan government, we are not allowed to move around freely.
However, it has become apparent to those in the city that there are a clutch of journalists in two hotels.
We were having breakfast in our hotel when the woman broke in and said she'd been picked up at a checkpoint in the city.
She claimed she had been held for two days, and that she had been raped and tortured.
The woman showed marks on her body which she said she had received as a result of beatings by the people who were holding her, Gaddafi supporters.
She showed marks on her legs and on her wrists, which she suggested came from handcuffs.
In a state of great distress, she said she had suffered this beating because she was from Benghazi, the city where the uprising began in the east of the country. Read More
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