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Tunisia Femen activist freed pending trial

Tunisia Femen activist freed pending trial ‘Court’s move a big surprise’ TUNIS, Aug 2, (AFP): Amina Sboui, a young Tunisian activist with the topless protest group Femen, was released from jail on Thursday pending her trial for desecrating a cemetery. Sboui left the women’s prison in Sousse, south of Tunis, where she has been held since May 19, and her supporters issued a photo of her making a victory sign after she was freed. “She is with her family,” her lawyer Ghazi Mrabet told AFP. He said he hoped arrangements had been made to look after the 18-year-old’s security, as radical >>>

FEMEN is coming: the bare-breasted feminist group who want London women to …

Wherever and whenever the action, it will not involve the chainsaw, which is sitting charred and partially melted on the table in front of us, the casualty of a recent suspected arson attack on FEMEN HQ.Nor will it involve Shevchenko, 23, who, having only recently been granted refugee status in France, is unable to leave the country. “Still,” says the blonde Ukrainian, cheerfully: “We have been contacted by British women who want to be activists and we have trained one already. We are looking to organise a team. Strategically, London is one of the important countries for us.”To name but >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference of ultra-conservative Muslims.The >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference >>>

Topless Femen activists enter Russian embassy in Sweden to protest anti-gay law

Washington, Aug. 2 (ANI): Two topless female protesters from the infamous Ukrainian-based group FEMEN jumped into the Russian embassy in Stockholm to protest against the country's anti-gay bill and stigmatization of homosexuals.Police were called to the embassy to remove the activists, who climbed over the fence. They were released after confessing to trespassing.According to the New York Daily News, the two women waved a rainbow flag at the embassy's ground and carried a sign saying 'homosexual propaganda on Russian ground'.They were supported by two other activists >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference of ultra-conservative Muslims.The >>>

Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's rights group, was freed from jail on Thursday after spending more than two months behind bars, one of her lawyers said.Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed. The 19-year-old is waiting to be tried on a single charge, profanation of a cemetery, after a charge of insulting a public servant was dropped on Monday.Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference of ultra-conservative Muslims.The >>>