The 2011 Libyan rape allegations were controversial allegations that Gaddafi's forces in Libya were committing mass rape during the 2011 Libyan civil war. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo said "we have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government."[1] Libyan psychologist Seham Sergiwa said she distributed questionnaires in opposition-held areas and along the Libya–Tunisia border, and 259 women responded that they were raped.[1] Sergiwa told Amnesty International's specialist on Libya that she had lost contact with the 140 victims she interviewed and was unable to provide documentary evidence.[1] In March 2011, Iman al-Obeidi said she was gang-raped before Libyan security services dragged her away.[1][2]
Investigations by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch[1] and Doctors Without Borders[2] did not find evidence that mass rapes had occurred.[1] Amnesty International's senior crisis response adviser said although no evidence was found, this did not prove that mass rape did not occur, but it also could not establish that it did, either.[1] Amnesty did find that, in many cases, rebels had made false claims about abuse by Gadaffi's soldiers.[1] UN investigator M. Cherif Bassiouni described the claims as "massive hysteria".[3]
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