they are speaking out here on 360 thursday night. it s a harrowing experience, what they saw and herd in captivity and what gadhafi s forces did to them. she risked everything to stand up for her dignity and take a stand against the gadhafi regime. [ screaming in foreign language ] the libyan woman who burst into a hotel, screaming, saying she had been gang raped by members of gadhafi s regime. now that regime is claiming some of the men have filed charges against her. they say she is with her family in tripoli. correspondents drove hundreds of miles, found her real family. tonight you ll hear from her mom and from a resident in tripoli who calls her a hero. also, later, japanese the japan nuclear crisis. new fears about highly radioactive water and growing concerns over the way japanese officials are handling the
traitor as she draws a knife. this man here appears to be going for a weapon. gadhafi s men kick and punch journalists, wrestling some of them to the ground, breaking their cameras for their footage. as she continues to cry out her story, watch as this woman throws a dark bag over her head to silence her. a little while later she surfaces as government officials drag her out of the hotel. if you don t see me tomorrow, then that s it, she screams. where are you taking her to? journalists try to come to her aid one last time. but she s shoved into a car and taken away. earlier tonight i spoke on the phone to a man in tripoli. we heard from him earlier, talking about the fear people have of speaking out against the
they told us the barrage had begun in the morning and there were snipers in bin jawad shooting at them. they say they stood their ground for as long as they could, but after seven hours we saw them forced to turn around and retreat all the way to the outskirts of ras lanuf and then outside of ras lanuf, we saw and heard explosions, dark smoke rising. artillery fire. we saw the opposition fires trying to shoot back with artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, multibarreled rocket launchers. they were intent on standing their ground, but it seems as if they re beginning to lose that area, as well. what has changed is that they have not come across just gadhafi s military at this point, but it appears as if it is regrouping and standing up against the opposition. but also up against residents in
kids might say something about what their kids are talking about and some government minder will hear the kid and pick up the parents and the neighbors. reporter: and we have unconfirmed reports as well of families having their children, daughters in some cases, kidnapped out on the streets, 15, 17-year-old girls kidnapped. reports of young men from their families being kidnapped when they ve gone to pick up weapons that they ve been offered by the government. or indeed just kidnapped on the streets and forced into volunteer forces for gadhafi s army. or gadhafi s loyalist forces. at least these reports impossible for us to confirm here for the very reasons that we can t go and talk freely to people. when i was at the gas pump the other day checking up on people s thoughts about the fact that they were lining up for gas, there were three government minders standing over my shoulder. one of them even interfering
she caught the imagination and the affirmations of a lot of people. she s talked about all over the city and she s instigated many a debate. there are many fears over her story. my family included. and what they re doing on state tv is deplorable. it s absolutely disgusting and it s just adding to the anger and just adding to the support that other people have for her. for her. one man s view from tripoli. back with us, nic robertson and in benghazi tonight, reza sayah. reza, you traveled all that way to meet with her mom. how is her family holding up? reporter: they re holding up. we expected them to be worried. they are. what we didn t expect is this type of outrage that we saw. some of the comments they were making were incredibly bitter and pointed. the fact she said she wants to see gadhafi killed.