Tunisian police detained a Ukrainian topless activist in the capital Tunis before expelling her from the North African country on Tuesday, a leader of the women’s protest movement Femen said. “Some men entered her hotel room, ordered her to take her belongings and drove to the police... She was deported and is now on a plane to Kyiv,” Femen’s leader in Paris, Inna Shevchenko, told AFP on the phone. Meanwhile, three other Femen women, two French and one German, face jail terms of up to a year when they go on trial in Tunis on Wednesday, although their lawyer is confident of a lighter >>>

Watch a video of the encounter Nudity, obviously. Xenia Chernyshova tore her shirt off and stormed a Montreal stage on Saturday, interrupting a speech from Hamadi Jebali, the former Tunisian prime minister and current secretary-general of the country’s ruling Islamist party.  Online footage shows Ms. Chernyshova shouting “Free Amina” before being knocked to the ground by angered audience members. Ms. Chernyshova — who leads the new Quebec wing of international feminist group Femen — was protesting the imprisonment of Tunisian Femen member Amina Tyler. Since 2008, Femen has gained >>>

Femen ... we've just started hearing about this organization in the Arab world, after the controversy over a young girl in Tunisia posting her topless photo of herself on the net and then protesting against Salafists and being dragged to jail for that. Femen has spread into our Arab and Islamic societies only recently, but the movement has gained some success in Europe and was founded in Ukraine back in 2008. The organization calls for feminism extremism ... as they put it "radical feminism". Femen protests against sexism, sex tourism, harassment, religious institutions and other female >>>

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(Warning: story about topless protesters contains images of topless protesters.) Moments after I wrote a blog post about a Femen demonstration in Germany, the group held its first topless action in Canada. Xenia Chernyshova is reportedly the woman in the video above. As former Tunisian prime minister Jamadi Djebali was speaking in Montreal, she stormed onto the stage and ripped off her top. The slogan "Femen everywhere" was written across Chernyshova's chest as she screamed at Djebali. She demanded that the Tunisian, who's secretary general of an Islamist party called Ennahda, free Femen protester >>>

(Warning: story about topless protesters contains images of topless protesters.) Moments after I wrote a blog post about a Femen demonstration in Germany, the group held its first topless action in Canada. Xenia Chernyshova is reportedly the woman in the video above. As former Tunisian prime minister Jamadi Djebali was speaking in Montreal, she stormed onto the stage and ripped off her top. The slogan "Femen everywhere" was written across Chernyshova's chest as she screamed at Djebali. She demanded that the Tunisian, who's secretary general of an Islamist party called Ennahda, free Femen protester >>>

A Femen protester rushes onto the stage during a speech by the former PM of Tunisia in Montreal, June 1, 2013. (Photo courtesy Nina-Michele le Floch) MONTREAL -- A topless female protester disrupted a speech by the former prime minister of Tunisia in Montreal on Saturday. Xenia Chernyshova, 26, who is a member of the feminist group, Femen, said she wanted to raise awareness of the imprisonment of a fellow Femen activist, Amina Tyler, who is detained in Tunisia. Tyler scandalized extremists in her country in March by posting Facebook >>>

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<!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- -->   Wednesday, May 29, 2013 TUNIS, Tunisia —  Three European activists who protested topless in front of the Tunis courthouse in solidarity with a Tunisian member have been charged with offending public decency and threatening public order, their attorney said Friday. The members of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen were demonstrating for the release of Amina Sboui, who angered conservatives with a protest in the religious center of Kairouan in which >>>

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