KAIROUAN, Tunisia: A Tunisian activist with the women's topless protest group Femen went on trial Thursday for illegal possession of pepper spray, a day after three Europeans bared their breasts in the capital Tunis.Femen said the young women arrested Wednesday outside the central courthouse, two French and one German, would at midday appear before the public prosecutor, who would decide if they would be charged.Their protest was the first of its kind in the Arab world and shocked some in Tunisia, which has seen a rise in the activity of hardline Islamists since the country's January 2011 revolution. >>>

Police officers detain an activist from the women’s rights group Femen during a protest against the arrest of their Tunisian member named Amina, in front of Tunisia’s Ministry of Justice in Tunis. Three Femen “sextremists” were arrested in Tunisia on Wednesday after the activist group’s ”first topless protest in an Islamic state” euronews reports. The women — one German and two French — were detained outside the Ministry of Justice in Tunis after revealing their bare chests and holding signs saying “F**k your morals!” The activists said their actions were >>>

Johannesburg, May 30 (ANI): Femen, a Ukrainian feminist group that uses nudity in protests has again created furor when three of its activists disrobed in front of the Tunisian Justice Ministry protesting against the detention of the group’s member Amina Tyler. The protesting women of German and French origin approached the entrance to the ministry and disrobed revealing naked torsos scribbled with ‘Breasts Feed Revolution’ and chanted ‘Free Amina’ and ‘ Women’s spring is coming’. In a report by News24, Tyler was arrested on charges of carrying dangerous objects >>>

ITS activists have dressed as policemen and sex workers in Kyiv; as marathon runners and Muslim men in London; and as nuns and maids in Paris. Femen, a Ukrainian women’s movement, mostly fights against pornography and prostitution—yet all its protestors demonstrate topless. Why are some feminists going bare-breasted?Part of the reason is that most legal avenues have already been pursued, with marked success. British women gained the Equal Pay Act in 1970; their French sisters won the right to abortion in 1975; and by 1980 American women could sue for sexual harassment. Yet women's bodies >>>

A movement born in the Ukraine during protests against a Kiwi radio show is spreading around the world. Photographs of breasts cover the walls of the Kyiv basement that serves as the global headquarters of Femen, the women's rights movement born in Ukraine. The group of radical feminists has augmented its agenda with militant atheism, and members declare, controversially, that their main weapons in the fight against patriarchy in all its forms are their breasts. They like to refer to themselves as "sextremists" and their ideology as "sextremism". Sitting at the table are Anna Hutsol, 28, the movement's >>>

TUNIS: Three young European women with topless protest group Femen were arrested Wednesday after baring their breasts in Tunis, a first in the Arab world that sparked scuffles outside the Tunisian capital's main courthouse. The Femen movement, founded in Ukraine and now based in Paris, has flourished since 2010, with feminists around the world stripping off in protest at a wide range of issues linked to the mistreatment of women, but also against dictatorship. Standing on a wall in front of the railings outside the courthouse, the women, two French and the other German, shouted, "Free Amina," >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia — Three foreign activists disrobed in front of the Justice Ministry on Wednesday to protest against the jailing of a Tunisian member of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, quickly attracting a crowd of offended Tunisians before the three women were hustled away by police. The trio, one German and two French, approached the entrance to the ministry wearing coats which they took off, revealing naked torsos scrawled with "Breasts Feed Revolution." Wearing just jean shorts, the women chanted in English "Free Amina" and "Women's spring is coming" as people in the crowd attempted >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian police have seized three foreign activists were disrobing in front of the Ministry of Justice, displaying "Free Amina" slogans on their stomachs, to protest against the jailing of a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN. The three were hustled to a police station as some 200 people gathered to protest the women's actions. The demonstrators were accompanied by a few representatives of Tunisian civil society, who were harshly criticized by the protesters, many of whom appeared to be conservative Muslims by their attire. Tunisian woman Amina Tyler >>>

Tunisian police have seized three foreign activists were disrobing in front of the Ministry of Justice, displaying "Free Amina" slogans on their stomachs, to protest against the jailing of a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN.The three were hustled to a police station as some 200 people gathered to protest the women's actions.The demonstrators were accompanied by a few representatives of Tunisian civil society, who were harshly criticized by the protesters, many of whom appeared to be conservative Muslims by their attire.Tunisian woman Amina Tyler scandalized society by >>>

The group of radical feminists has augmented its agenda with militant atheism, and members declare, controversially, that their main weapons in the fight against patriarchy in all its forms are their breasts. They like to refer to themselves as “sextremists” and their ideology as “sextremism”.Sitting at the table are Anna Hutsol, 28, the movement’s founder, and Alexandra Shevchenko, 25. Both are fully clothed, but it was only a few weeks earlier that a topless Shevchenko was rushing towards Vladimir Putin at a German trade exhibition, getting within spitting distance of the Russian President >>>