was here, i would slap him in the face. you get an idea of how angry she is, the allegations, the suggestions the regime has made about her daughter being promiscuo promiscuous, leading a lifestyle that s questionable, not in keeping with islam. her mother rejected all of those allegations. she described hem as a desperate attempt to discredit her daughter. so a lot of anger and concern for this mother. she knows that she can t do much all the way here in tobruk. all she can do is raise awareness, call on the international community to help. so she s angry. but reza, does she have any idea where her daughter is? i know it was reported she was apprehended, perhaps she was released. does she have a clue where her daughter is? reporter: she hasn t. she says the last time she spoke to her she believes she was in a compound belonging to the regime. that was sunday. now, since then regime officials have said that her daughter is
released, free to do what she wants, that this is a criminal case and the government is investigating. her mother rejects that. she calls those lies. she says if indeed her daughter is free, where is she? let s see her. allow her to speak to the media, the international media. that obviously is not happening. reza, help us also understand, because according to nic robertson s reporting, this young woman is engaged. but in libya and i spoke with an eyewitness libyan several weeks ago cho explained when a woman is raped her honor is gone. so is her fiance standing by her, and her father for that matter? reporter: here s what happened. this could explain the engagement ceremony, which happened without her in absentia last night. so the family believes that these allegations made by the regime that she leads a questionable lifestyle is an attempt to discredit her. in this conservative society,
even accusations, even if they re not proven, they re enough to dishonor someone. so i think this engagement ceremony that took place in the hometown of tobruk yesterday was an attempt to reject this attempt by the regime to dishonor this woman. the family is saying, the honor is still intact, and that engagement ceremony was an indication of that. i see. reza sayah, thank you for the hustle in gettingen on the phone for us. we re all waiting to find out where this young woman is in libya. now to cuba. former president jimmy carter is actually about to meet with the president there, raul castro. but a reporter just asked him if he s trying to get that american subcontractor released from prison, if it s on his agenda there in cuba. we ll hear his response straight ahead.
really the difficult question, with very few answers at the moment. right. i know that is one of the questions, do they arm the rebels or don t they? becky anderson, i thank you for hopping on the phone. we have a special coming up here in a matter of minutes. just in to cnn, we re hearing from our reporter on the ground in libya, re reza sayah, just interviewed the mother of this woman, the alleged rape victim who burst into the journalivi journ journalists hotel on saturday. we will find out from reza if her family knows where she is now. eman al oebd obeidy.