Print E-mail By MARIA DANILOVA The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — A group of women from a Ukrainian topless-protest group on Wednesday recounted their ordeal in neighboring Belarus, where they claimed they were kidnapped, beaten and abused by local security officials. Aleksandra Nemchinova ,left, and Inna Shevchenko,center, Oksana Shachko ,right, activists of the Women's Movement 'FEMEN' speak to media in Kyiv,Ukraine,Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. The Ukrainian organization of topless women activists says three of its members were abducted by security officers >>>

A Ukrainian women's activist group has accused Belarusian police of kidnapping and physically abusing them after they held a public protest against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reported that three members of the Femen group, held a press conference in Kyiv on December 21 to talk about their ordeal, which they said involved their abduction from Minsk by members of Belarus's KGB to a distant forest, where they were stripped, doused with oil, and physically threatened. Activist Inna Shevchenko pledged that her group won't stop because of >>>

The leader of the Young Front registered in the Czech Republic recalls some stories resembling the FEMEN incident. Nasta Palazhanka: I think it was ordinary revenge of the “brave” security services directed at the girls who had managed to conduct a successful action that attracted attention, who demonstrated their will and interests – it was like a slap in their face. That is why they took revenge on the girls as they had not managed to react in time. They did it on the sly. I am not surprised. - Some activists of the European Belarus, Young Front and you went though it… - It has >>>