(Nov 24, Malta (CNN)--Shweyga Mullah's face lights up with a smile that spreads like a sunrise across her face. She's just arrived at a party, organized by the small Ethiopian community on Malta. It's the first time she's seen many of her new friends since being discharged from hospital last week.
They raise paper cups of soda in a toast and Shweyga bashfully takes the salute and laughs and jokes with her fellow Ethiopians.
It's heart-warming to see her finally enjoying herself. All her Ethiopian friends here had been lured to Libya by promises of lucrative work. But no one we know of has suffered quite like Shweyga. One friend Emanuel Tsegay tells me that on hearing Shweyga's story he burst into tears.
Shweyga's unbelievably awful story of torture at the hands of Colonel Moammar Gaddafi's daughter-in-law Aline has touched people around the world and resulted in some $40,000 being donated to a special fund for her recovery. We found Shweyga abandoned in a Gaddafi family compound in August. Read more from CNN »
They raise paper cups of soda in a toast and Shweyga bashfully takes the salute and laughs and jokes with her fellow Ethiopians.
It's heart-warming to see her finally enjoying herself. All her Ethiopian friends here had been lured to Libya by promises of lucrative work. But no one we know of has suffered quite like Shweyga. One friend Emanuel Tsegay tells me that on hearing Shweyga's story he burst into tears.
Shweyga's unbelievably awful story of torture at the hands of Colonel Moammar Gaddafi's daughter-in-law Aline has touched people around the world and resulted in some $40,000 being donated to a special fund for her recovery. We found Shweyga abandoned in a Gaddafi family compound in August. Read more from CNN »
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