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Lawyer: Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail – Westport

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 >>>

Member of Ukrainian Women’s Group Freed From Jail

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - A defense lawyer says that a Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's group, has been freed from jail after spending more than two months behind bars. Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed on Thursday. 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 >>>

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 >>>

Topless “sextremists” go global

The first step toward expanding beyond Ukraine took place after member Inna Shevchenko was forced to flee from criminal prosecution last August for chopping down a wooden cross in central Kyiv in support of the embattled Russian punk group Pussy Riot.After making her way to Paris, she helped open an international office there for prospective European recruits. New members are trained in self-defense and protest techniques, and prepared for what Hutsol calls an “ideological war.”France granted Shevchenko asylum last month, effectively formalizing FEMEN’s first foreign outpost.Besides 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 young >>>

Tunisian member of Femen freed from jail

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A defense lawyer says that a Tunisian member of Femen, the Ukrainian women's group, has been freed from jail after spending more than two months behind bars. Bahri Souhaib told The Associated Press that Amina Sboui was provisionally freed on Thursday. 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 conservative Muslims. Copyright 2013 >>>

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 >>>

Tunisia Femen activist Amina to go free

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 Islamists have threatened Sboui in the past.Several hours earlier, the Tunisian judiciary had ordered >>>

Femen activists arrested in Sweden for Russian embassy invasion

16:49 01/08/2013 MOSCOW, August 1 (RAPSI) - Two Femen activists have been arrested in Stockholm for invasion of the Embassy of Russia, press attache Alexander Pashedko told RIA Novosti on Thursday. Two women streamed a rainbow flag opposite the embassy on Thursday morning. Then they got over the fence and continued their topless protest, Pashedko said. The Femen group, which originated in Ukraine, has expanded its activities to other countries as well. Their stunts always feature the same signature piece - they show up topless in any circumstances and in any weather. Femen was officially registered >>>

2 Feminists Arrested in Sweden for Breaking Into Russian Embassy

This article contains information not suitable for readers younger than 18 years of age, according to Russian legislation. MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) – Two activists from the radical feminist movement Femen were arrested in Stockholm on Thursday for illegally entering the Russian Embassy compound, an embassy official said. The two activists appeared in front the embassy’s main gate at 9 a.m. local time and unfolded a rainbow flag, embassy press attache Alexander Pashedko told RIA Novosti. “Minutes later, the two women climbed over the embassy fence and proceeded with the ‘standard’ >>>