TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - The defense lawyer for the Tunisian member of Ukrainian women's group Femen says one of the charges against her client has been dismissed. Leila Ben Debba said that the court Monday tossed out the charge of insulting and defaming a public servant brought against her client Amina Sboui. The charge stemmed from an incident in prison when Sboui got into an altercation with guards she alleged were mistreating a fellow inmate. Sboui was arrested May 19 for allegedly scrawling Femen on a cemetery wall in the city of Kairouan, protesting a planned conference of >>>

Posted: Monday, July 29, 2013 11:45 am | Updated: 1:06 pm, Mon Jul 29, 2013. Court dismisses 1 charge against Tunisian feminist Associated Press | 0 comments The defense lawyer for the Tunisian member of Ukrainian women's group Femen says one of the charges >>>

KYIV – A photographer and three members of the feminist movement Femen, known for their bare-breasted protests, were illegally held in police custody overnight Saturday after being abducted by unknown assailants during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Ukraine, the group said Sunday. Police denied the four were snatched off the streets of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in broad daylight Saturday. A police spokesman said they were detained when the topless women, with slogans daubed on their bodies, violated orders by posing for the photographer in a public place. The >>>

Activists from women's rights group Femen in Kyiv. Photo: Reuters A court in Kyiv fined three activists of Femen, the Ukrainian feminist organisation known for its bare-breasted protests, and a Russian photojournalist, and released them after their weekend arrest. Femen said the women had been beaten and kidnapped when they were arrested and had been targeted by Ukraine's security service, the SBU, to prevent protests during a visit to Kyiv by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church, who have been accosted by Femen members in the past. Police >>>

Femen protest in Amsterdam Monday 29 July 2013 The Netherlands on Monday saw its first Femen protest, although just four activists took part. The four women followed the Femen style, with bared breasts and slogans written on their upper bodies such as Free Russia and Free Speech. They also carried the rainbow flag of the gay movement during the protest at the homo monument in Amsterdam. They were protesting against Russian president Vladimir Putin's anti-gay policy and the arrest on Saturday of three Femen activists in the Ukraine. Femen was founded in the Ukraine in 2008 and has now grown >>>

The leader of the Femen women's rights group, Hanna Hutsol, has said she believes that recent attempts to intimidate members of the organization in Kyiv are being made by the secret services, both Russian and Ukrainian, and are related to a visit to Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. "This is the continuation of the intimidation of the Femen movement, actions aimed at preventing the protests against the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Gundyaev… I >>>

Three activists with the radical feminist Femen movement and a Russian photographer have spent the night in police custody after being detained on July 27. The four were fined by a Kyiv court on July 28 for hooliganism and disobeying an order from police and then released. The group claimed on July 28 that the four had been snatched off a street in Kyiv by unknown assailants in civilian clothes the previous afternoon. Femen activist Anna Hutsol was present outside the courthouse when the four were released. With her right eye blackened and nearly swollen shut from a beating she received on July >>>

11:46 29/07/2013 KYIV, July 29 (RAPSI) - Three FEMEN activists and a photographer for the "Russian Reporter" magazine that were detained on Saturday, have been released by the courts' order, a Kyiv police spokesman told RIA Novosti Photographer for the "Russian Reporter" magazine Dmitry Kostyukov was detained along with the three FEMEN activists on Saturady in the northern part of Kyiv. The police took notice of three topless women and a man taking pictures and ordered them to cease. The activists ignored the officers and were detained after that. The girls were charged with minor administrative >>>

A court in Kyiv has fined Russian reporter Dmitry Kostyukov and three activists of the FEMEN movement, detained on Saturday, defense attorney Yaroslav Yatsenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Sunday. "The activists have been each fined UAH 85 and Kostyukov UAH 136," he told Interfax-Ukraine. "The hearings lasted long, the FEMEN activists testified, and then two policemen were questioned as witnesses, who claimed that the women had been walking around topless," he said. "But their evidence broke apart as one of the witnesses did not recognize Kostyukov, while the other recognized >>>

Femen said that the women had been beaten and kidnapped when they were arrested and that they had been targeted by Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, to prevent protests during a visit to Kyiv by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox church, who have been accosted by Femen members in the past. Police said that the women, Oksana Shachko, Alexandra Shevchenko, and Yana Zhdanova, were detained by a patrol car after officers spotted them naked and arrested them for “petty hooliganism” after they failed to cover up. The photojournalist, >>>