A Ukrainian woman who dared to hold a topless protest outside the headquarters of Belarus's feared KGB has told how she and her colleagues were abducted by security agents and subjected to a terrifying ordeal that included beatings, mock executions and having a corrosive substance thrown in their hair. Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the controversial Ukrainian feminist group Femen, described how masked men told her she would "breathe her final breath" as they cut up her hair with a knife and beat her for daring to protest inside the quasi-Stalinist state. The >>>

Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the controversial Ukrainian feminist group Femen, described how masked men told her she would "breathe her final breath" as they cut up her hair with a knife and beat her for daring to protest inside the quasi-Stalinist state.The 21-year-old had travelled to Belarus on 19 December with two friends to demonstrate against the ongoing crackdown by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. In a country where insulting the dignity of the president is a criminal offence, the trio stripped to their waists and put on fake moustaches to lampoon Mr Lukashenko, who is often described >>>

English   Ukraine's feminist group Femen is determined to hold more anti-Lukashenka protests in Belarus despite the ordeal of three activists who were abducted in Minsk and terrorized earlier this week. "We have not regretted our decision to travel to Belarus for a single second despite what happened to us there," Inna Shevchenko told reporters in Kyiv on December 21. "We promise that we will continue coming [to Belarus], undress and defeat the Lukashenka regime," the young woman said. Ms. Shevchenko was one of the three activists who were >>>