Outspoken Victim Flees Libya.

CAIRO -- A Libyan woman who became a symbol of her country's repression after security forces tried to silence her accusations that Qaddafi militiamen had raped her said on Monday that she had escaped to neighboring Tunisia. The woman, Eman al-Obeidy, told CNN on Monday that a defecting soldier and his family had driven her in a military car to a rebel-held border crossing last Thursday; she hid her face behind a traditional head covering, she said, and crossed the border as a refugee. She said she continued to fear pursuit by agents working for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and hoped to find protection from a Western government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]