Libyan women’s activists, Amany Mufta Ismail and Nebras Attias, explain in their own words their reaction to the story of Eman Al-Obeidy.

“She is a logo for us… She is a Libyan logo for us,” explains 22-year-old Amany Mufta Ismail, a women’s organizer in the Eastern Libyan city of Dirna. In recent months, Al-Obeidy, a 29-year-old Libyan law student, directed the world’s attention to the treatment of women under Libyan President Muamarr Gaddafi’s security forces, but also to the chilling reality faced by women in times of war. Earlier this week, CNN confirmed that Al-Obeidy had in fact escaped to Tunisia days earlier, with the assistance of defecting military officers.