Her name is Amina Sboui and she is 19 years old. For the last two months, her home has been inside the four walls of a cell at the Messadines women’s prison in Tunisia. On Monday she appeared in court, after being accused of assaulting guards and defaming public servants. She was wearing a thin pink T-shirt, revealing a tattoo on her arm, while her co-defendant, her cellmate, a girl named Rabia, wore a sifsari, the traditional Tunisian veil.

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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen told a court Monday that she intervened after witnessing prison guards mistreating a fellow inmate in her defense against new charges of insulting and defaming a civil servant.Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in her country — using the kind of seminude protest favored by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - A detained Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen says female prisoners are mistreated by prison guards, and her attempt to intervene has brought new charges.Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting her topless photos to denounce the mistreatment of women. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling "Femen" on the wall of a cemetery near a mosque. She is awaiting trial on charges of undermining public morals and desecrating a cemetery.On Monday, Sboui told the judges at the Msaken court, 140 kilometers (87 miles) from Tunis, that she only intervened >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia — An imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen told a court Monday that she intervened after witnessing prison guards mistreating a fellow inmate in her defense against new charges of insulting and defaming a civil servant.Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in her country — using the kind of seminude protest favored by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen told a court Monday that she intervened after witnessing prison guards mistreating a fellow inmate in her defense against new charges of insulting and defaming a civil servant.Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in her country — using the kind of seminude protest favored by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia — An imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen told a court Monday that she intervened after witnessing prison guards mistreating a fellow inmate in her defense against new charges of insulting and defaming a civil servant. Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in her country — using the kind of seminude protest favored by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, >>>

Pauline Hillier looks tired as she greets a visitor to Femen's Paris headquarters. That's understandable. She's just been released from police custody after trying, unsuccessfully, to demonstrate in front of the Elysee presidential palace. The 26-year-old wears a flimsy white coverall over Femen's trademark battle fatigues - underwear…and not much else. "It was really surprising because we got out of the car to start our protest and as soon as they saw our flower crowns, the policeman started to run at us, to arrest us. It was really quick. So, as they caught us, we didn't want to stop our >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia - An imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen told a court Monday that she intervened after witnessing prison guards mistreating a fellow inmate in her defence against new charges of insulting and defaming a civil servant. Amina Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in her country — using the kind of seminude protest favoured by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, where ultraconservative >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia // Amina Sboui, the imprisoned Tunisian member of the Ukrainian women's group Femen, is facing new charges following an altercation with a prison guard, her defence lawyer said. Sboui, 19, shocked Tunisians in March by posting topless photos of herself online to denounce the mistreatment of women in the kind of seminude protest favored by Femen. She was later arrested on May 19 for scrawling the name of the group on the wall of a cemetery in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, where ultraconservative Muslims had planned an annual conference. Tunisia is known as one of the most progressive >>>

The Paris offices of militant feminist group Femen were hit by fire on Sunday. Although police are treating the blaze as an accident it comes after a recent death threat which said the activists should "burn" like "witches". 'Femen inspired' French stamp causes uproar (15 Jul 13) France 'grants' political asylum to Femen leader (08 Jul 13) A pre-dawn fire damaged the Paris office of the radical topless feminist group Femen on Sunday in what police were treating as an accident. But the group called it a "disturbing >>>