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Femen targets repressive leader of Belarus

Radical activists with the Ukrainian women's group Femen conducted a late-night protest against the man known as Europe's last dictator. The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was at a well-guarded home he keeps in Kyiv when a group of women approached the gate. The protesters removed their tops to expose statements such as "Dictator get out", "Fuck Dictator", and "Viva Belarus" across their chests and backs. Security officials hauled them away. Last year, Lukashenko bragged to Reuters about being the "last and only dictator in Europe", where he controls every seat in Parliament. He >>>

Topless protesters detained in Ukraine during demonstration against Belarusian …

Riot police detain an activist from women's rights group FEMEN during a demonstration against the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, outside the building where Lukashenko is staying at during his visit. Brian O'Reilly – 18 June 2013 TOPLESS protesters from Ukrainian group Femen were dispersed by police >>>

Topless protest: Femen campaigners target Belarus president

Three Femen activists have been arrested in Ukraine after staging a topless protest against the visit of the Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko.Activists shouted 'Belarus lives' and shouted profanities directed at Lukashenko, as officers dragged them towards a police van.Femen describes itself as "fighting patriarchy in its three manifestations - sexual exploitation of women, dictatorship and religion".Lukashenko is due to meet with his Ukraine counterpart Victor Yanukovich and other officials on Tuesday. >>>

Topless Protest Against Belarusian President In Ukrainian Capital

Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN's topless protesters made an unsuccessful attempt on Monday night to storm a building in capital Kyiv where Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was staying as part of a two-day official visit to the neighboring country.The self-styled group, which describes its activists as "sextremists," said on its website on Tuesday that they staged the protest to remind Lukashenko of the "brutal harassment" of FEMEN activists by security forces in the Gomel forests in Belarus in 2011 following another topless demonstration near KGB headquarters in capital Minsk.FEMEN said >>>

Femen activists attack sleeping ‘dictator’ Lukashenko

Activists of the infamous international women's movement Femen, who stage semi-naked protest actions around the world, conducted another topless action, this type in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv. As the website of "sextremists" says, two girls, one of them wearing only her panties, arranged a night raid on the place, where President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko was spending the night. Lukashenko arrived in Kyiv on an official two-day visit for talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The head of Belarus was accommodated in the presidential guest residence on Lipskaya Street, Podrobnosti.ua >>>

Femen in protest at visit of Belarus’ Lukashenko to Ukraine

Related FEMEN protest in Kyiv 08/06/2013 15:24 CET Three Femen activists have been arrested in Ukraine after staging a topless protest against the visit of President Lukashenko of Belarus. In Kyiv they tried to wake him at night outside the building where he was staying, calling him a dictator and accusing his government of repression. Among those detained was Oleksandra Shevchenko, recently deported from Tunisia. Femen claims that in December 2011 its activists were kidnapped and roughed >>>

FEMEN “night attack” on Belarusian dictator in Kyiv

18.06.2013 FEMEN “night attack” on Belarusian dictator in Kyiv 205 7:50, — Politics The women's movement held a protest action near Lukashenka's place of staying. FEMEN activists appeared there at midnight with torches. They had slogans “Lukashenka is cattle”, “Long live Belarus”, “Lukashenka must die”, “F*ck dictator” on their bodies, the website of the movement writes. The activists chanted slogans to support political prisoners in Belarus.The protest action was stopped by officers of Berkut special unit, who >>>

‘Sextremist’ Topless Protest Targets Belarus President

KYIV, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Self-styled “sextremist” topless protesters from Ukrainian feminist group Femen were dispersed by police in Kyiv overnight after attempting to storm a building where the Belarusian president was staying, the group said on its website on Tuesday. President Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed by US officials as the “last dictator in Europe,” is in the Ukrainian capital for a two-day official visit. The activists, carrying burning torches and with slogans including "Viva Belarus", "Dictator, Get Out!" daubed on their bodies, tried to break through security at >>>

Tunisia expels 3 Femen activists as others tried

Click photo to enlargeTUNIS, Tunisia—Three members of a radical Ukrainian feminist group were expelled from Tunisia on suspicion they were planning a topless protest in front of the court where their colleagues were being tried on charges of public indecency for an earlier protest, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The statement on the ministry's Facebook page said solid information led to one Ukrainian being rousted from her hotel room and taken to the country's main international airport Tuesday, while a Belarusian was stopped at the airport the same day. Another Ukrainian was also >>>

Tunisian court sentences Femen activists to 4 months in jail

10:11 13/06/2013 MOSCOW, June 13 (RAPSI) - A court in Tunis has sentenced three European feminists to four months and one day in prison for staging a topless protest outside the Tunisian Palace of Justice on May 29, AFP reports, citing one of the girls' lawyers. The court found them guilty of "an attack on public morals and indecency," Souheib Bahri told AFP. Pauline Hillier and Marguerite Stern from France and Josephine Markmann from Germany, members of the controversial Femen protest group, were detained after they staged a topless protest at the Palace of Justice. They waved banners and displayed >>>