Three members of a Ukrainian political action group notorious for protesting topless were detained so they could not run onto the pitch during a Euro 2012 match between the country′s national team against France, Saturday news reports said. A police statement said officers took the women into custody in a MacDonald's restaurant in the eastern city Donetsk on Friday, hours before a Ukraine-France match. All were members of the group Femen, the statement said.A Femen statement identified the men that held them not as police but security personnel working for Rinat Akhmetov, a Donetsk >>>

Topless feminist activist group Femen has claimed that three of their members have been abducted since arriving in Donetsk, ahead of a planned protest at the Euro 2012.The Ukranian group say three women, Alexandra Shevchenko, Yana Zhadanova and Anna Bolshakova, have been missing since they arrived in the city, where they had planned to demonstrate before the game between France and Ukraine.According to the Daily Mail, Inna Shevchenko, a spokesman for the movement, said that after arriving in the city, the activists began to be followed by a group of about 15 men, and at 4pm local time, the missing >>>

London, June 16 (ANI): Topless feminist activist group Femen has claimed that three of their members have been abducted since arriving in Donetsk, ahead of a planned protest at the Euro 2012.The Ukranian group say three women, Alexandra Shevchenko, Yana Zhadanova and Anna Bolshakova, have been missing since they arrived in the city, where they had planned to demonstrate before the game between France and Ukraine.According to the Daily Mail, Inna Shevchenko, a spokesman for the movement, said that after arriving in the city, the activists began to be followed by a group of >>>

Femen, the controversial women's protest group which specialises in staging topless demonstrations, said three of its members were abducted last night shortly before yesterday's football match between Ukraine and France.In an urgent release sent to supporters, Femen said the three activists complained of being followed by a group of men in the city of Donetsk. The group's headquarters in Kyiv lost contact with the women shortly after 4pm.The abductions bear similarities to another incident in December last year when three Femen activists were abducted, beaten and threatened with mock >>>

In an urgent release sent to supporters, Femen said the three activists complained of being followed by a group of men in the city of Donetsk. The group's headquarters in Kyiv lost contact with the three women shortly after 4pm and all attempts to reach them by telephone have so far failed.The abductions bear similarities to another incident in December last year when three Femen activists were abducted, beaten and threatened with mock executions after they protested in neighbouring Belarus. The activists taken last night were named as Alexander Shevchenko, Yana Zhdanova and Anna Bolshakova. Calls >>>

A desperate plea for help has just come through the wires for assistance from the group Femen: "Attention! Need help! Today around 16.00 oclock in Donetsk 3 FEMEN activists Alexander Shevchenko, Yana Zhdanova and Anna Bolshakova were captured by a group of unknown men. On the morning of June 15, the day of the match Ukraine-France, FEMEN activists arrived in Donetsk for action against the Euro 2012 . After their arival activists were folowed by group of 15 men as activists discribed by telephone. Around 16.00 ocloc connection was lost with Alexandra, and hour longer with Yana >>>

Members were 'followed by group of 15 men' after entering UkraineFeminist group had planned protest before Ukraine v France game in Donetsk By Chris Parsons PUBLISHED: 19:16 GMT, 15 June 2012 | UPDATED: 19:22 GMT, 15 June 2012 Feminist activist group Femen have claimed that three of their members have been abducted since arriving in Donetsk ahead of a planned protest at Euro 2012.The Ukranian group say three women, Alexandra Shevchenko, Yana Zhadanova and Anna Bolshakova, have not been seen since arriving in the city, where they had planned to demonstrate before the game between >>>

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A group of activists from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen were reported on Friday night to have been kidnapped by unknown men in the city of Donetsk, the venue for Ukraine's Euro 2012 match against France.The women – Femen's leader Alexandra Shevchenko, Anna Bolshakova and Yana Zhdanova – arrived in the eastern city earlier on Friday.They reported that a gang of about 15 men were following them. The women split up. Activists say they lost contact with Shevchenko at around 4pm, with all connections to Bolshakova and Zhdanova cut an hour later.In a statement on its website Femen said >>>

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