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20 August 2012, 10:40
Police block FEMEN office in Kyiv
Kyiv, August 20, Interfax - The Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN says the police blocked the organization's office in Kyiv following the sawing down of the cross in central Kyiv.
"The police launched a full-fledged hunt for FEMEN activists after the Interior Ministry's Main Department in Kyiv opened a criminal case on the basis of the sawing down of the cross in Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The Kyiv office of FEMEN was blocked by the Interior Ministry special troops all night," FEMEN said in a press release.
FEMEN activists reiterate that they are "calm about the authorities' ardor to put them behind bars and are not at all sorry for what they have done and are ready for any development of the situation."
According to earlier reports, FEMEN activists sawed down a cross in central Kyiv located near the International Center for Culture and Arts (Oktyabrsky Palace) to express their solidarity and support of Pussy Riot on August 17.
A criminal case was opened on the basis of the article of the Ukrainian Criminal Code dealing with hooliganism. No one has been detained yet.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow patriarchate) condemned the FEMEN activists' action and called on the media and the public to ignore such actions.
The all-Ukrainian movement Svoboda and the all-Ukrainian public organization Vernoye Kazachestvo have expressed an intention to restore the cross.
On August 17, the Moscow Khamovnichesky Court sentenced three members of the feminist group Pussy Riot to two years in a penal colony for their stunt in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
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