FEMEN protesting in Istanbul, Turkey Courtesy The Istanbul prosecution service has decided not to open a criminal case against four Ukrainian female citizens and activists of the FEMEN rights group near Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul. FEMEN said citing the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet on Wednesday that Turkish prosecutors had made the decision on Tuesday. "The capital's prosecution service ruled that the same protest by the Ukrainian female movement FEMEN cannot be viewed as a crime," it said. "The activists demonstrate their sexuality >>>

KYIV, April 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Feminists and pro-aborts in Ukraine have staged a topless protest against government plans to outlaw abortion in some circumstances. The protest comes as the country has been plunged into a debate over the abortion law, which allows abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, while the country faces a looming demographic crisis with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. The feminist group ‘Femen’ angered Ukrainian Catholics by staging a protest in which a group of women exposed themselves after climbing to the top of the Cathedral >>>

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, has become notorious as a sex tourism mecca in Europe. Many young women from rural areas in Ukraine migrate to Kyiv to find a better life. But, because of the economic hardship and the difficulty of getting a job, many of them support themselves by prostituting themselves. In fact, these type of women make up 90% of the prostitutes in Kyiv. Prostitutes enjoy no form of civil law protection in Ukraine. The police still treat prostitutes violently, intimidating and blackmailing them. Sex workers remain extremely stigmatised and excluded from society, >>>

Ukrainian members of the Femen radical feminist group have staged another naked protest, this time to defend Ukrainian women's right to abortion. The activists climbed to the top of the Cathedral of St Sophia in the centre of Kyiv and stripped from the waist up to protest against a bill that would ban abortions in the former communist country. They rolled down a banner labelled "Stop" from the balcony and rang the bells to oppose what they called a criminal plot between the church and the state to outlaw abortion. Members barricaded themselves inside the cathedral, a former Orthodox church converted >>>

Representatives of some Ukrainian churches have criticized the resent protest organized by the feminist organization FEMEN on the bell tower of the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral to protest a bill proposing a ban on abortions in Ukraine. AFP Representatives of some Ukrainian churches have criticized the resent protest organized by the feminist organization FEMEN on the bell tower of the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral to protest a bill proposing a ban on abortions in Ukraine. "No doubt, this organization's act repulses me. At the same time, understand that >>>

News 11 April 2012, 16:39FEMEN activists who protested on Sophia Cathedral bell tower released Kyiv, April 11, Interfax - The Kyiv police have made administrative protocols against the members of the feminist organization FEMEN, who conducted a topless protest on the bell tower of the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral, accusing them of hooliganism. The four FEMEN activists were detained by police for protesting on the Sophia Cathedral bell tower on April 10, the press >>>

News 11 April 2012, 16:08Half naked FEMEN activists expressed their attitude to abortion ban on the bell tower of St. Sophia Cathedral Kyiv, April 11, Interfax - Five activists of the Ukrainian organization Femen protested against depriving women of their right to make an abortion on the bell tower of St. Sophia Cathedral in downtown Kyiv. As was reported at their page in Facebook, girls rang the bells and hang a 7-meter black poster with white inscription >>>

Members of FEMEN, who are famous for staging controversial naked protests, switched from political issues and slashing domestic violence to defending Ukrainian women's right to abortion. They chose the country’s main Christian cathedral as a venue. ­Five FEMEN activists climbed to the Cathedral of St. Sophia in the center of Kyiv to protest a proposed legislation that would ban abortions in Ukraine.The girls got naked, rolled down banner “STOP” from the balcony of the cathedral and began ringing church bells to attract the attention of those passing by. They also shouted a slogan which >>>

Members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen have staged a topless protest against a church-backed bill that would ban abortions. The women climbed the bell tower of Kyiv's central St. Sophia cathedral, stripped off their tops, and rang the bells in a protest against what they called a "criminal plot between the church and the state." The protest was dispersed by police. Abortion is currently legal in Ukraine up to the 12th week and in certain cases up to the 22nd week of pregnancy. The proposed bill would ban all abortions except special cases allowed by the law, like medical emergencies. Femen, >>>

Activists from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen brought their barebreasted protest movement back to Kyiv by occupying the Bell Tower of the St. Sophia Cathedral in order to denounce a draft law banning abortion. Once the five protesters climbed to the top of the tower, they stripped to the waist, unfurled a seven-meter black banner with a one-word message - "STOP" - and rang the bell. “The ringing is an alarm to this eternal city of the gangster conspiracy of church and state that aims to impose government control over the sacred feminine gift of procreation," Femen said on Twitter. The Ukrainian >>>