It’s been a hectic couple of days for Femen: their Paris headquarters is under siege by 300 neo-Nazis seeking revenge for the events of two weekends ago, when they interrupted a yearly nationalist gathering to commemorate Joan of Arc. And last week, they found out that Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler, the 19-year-old who was drugged and given a virginity test after posting topless protest pictures of herself on Facebook, might be facing up to two years and six months in jail. Her crime: spray-painting "Femen" on a wall near a mosque in Kairouan where the Salafist >>>

TUNIS, Tunisia: Amina Tyler, the 19-year-old Tunisian woman who scandalized many in the country by posting topless photos of herself online as a protest, could face six months in prison for her latest arrest, her lawyer said Friday. Tyler, who had to go into hiding after receiving death threats from conservative preachers for posting the photos, tried to stage a new protest at the religious center of Kairouan, where ultraconservative Muslims had planned to hold their annual conference. Witnesses said she scrawled the name of FEMEN, the Ukrainian feminist group known for its use of nudity in protests, >>>

Ukraine-based “sextremist” group FEMEN hit Berlin on May 16, burning a crucified Barbie doll to protest the opening of a Barbie Dreamhouse exhibition. Standing in front of a 25,000-square foot pink mansion built by Mattel, Barbie’s manufacturer, a topless FEMEN activist in a ruffled skirt shouted slogans against sexism, commercialization, and idol worship before being removed by security. In photographs replicated by news media across the world, the protester’s bared body spoke the loudest; “life in plastic is not fantastic” was written across her chest. The Berlin action is >>>

Ukraine-based "sextremist" group FEMEN hit Berlin on May 16, burning a crucified Barbie doll to protest the opening of a Barbie Dreamhouse exhibition. Standing in front of a 25,000-square foot pink mansion built by Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer, a topless FEMEN activist in a ruffled skirt shouted slogans against sexism, commercialization, and idol worship before being removed by security. In photographs replicated by news media across the world, the protester's bared body spoke the loudest; "life in plastic is not fantastic" was written across her chest. The Berlin action is only >>>

2368 likes Category: Femen Tags: femen, putin, ukraine Femen, the Ukrainian feminist group, have staged another topless attack on Vladimir Putin, as he toured a factory in Hannover this morning. >>>

BERLIN - Irina Khanova, 33, is an independent graphic designer in Hamburg. Klara Martens, 22, is studying technical environmental protection in Berlin. Both of them played with Barbies when they were growing up. And both are members of the feminist activist group Femen, founded in 2008 in Ukraine – in fact Khanova is a co-founder of the German chapter, and Martens is Berlin representative. Femen demonstrators use their bodies – which they believe women are often reduced to – as a means of protesting that reductive view of women. At first, Khanova says, Femen activists didn’t bare their >>>

Inna, founder of the French branch of Femen, at their headquarters in Paris. Last Friday, I took the Eurostar from London to Paris to meet the topless feminist protest group Femen. Originally based in the Ukraine, the organization has since spread out across the world. The idea was to film the build up to Femen's next protest, but I didn't find out quite what I was getting myself into until I arrived at their headquarters—a lofty space above a theater in Goutte D'or—that afternoon. The area has a large Muslim population and is dotted with Islamic cultural centrers, >>>

 Appearing topless, their trademark look, with “sextermination” written across their breasts, the Ukraine-based movement appeared on the rooftop overlooking the statue of Joan of Arc in Place des Pyramides, just when ultra conversative Catholics, French royalists, skinhead youth and other groups were meeting. They unravelled a two-story high red and black banner reading “Sextermination for Nazism”, and set off flares that blew smoke into the crowds below who responded with cries of “Femen die” and “Femen whores”. Joan of Arc, long-considered a French medieval hero, has >>>

The breast-flashing and fist-pumping Femen group struck again in Paris on Sunday, interrupting a rally organised by far-right groups to commemorate Saint Joan of Arc in central Paris. The four feminists appeared topless – a trademark of the Ukraine-based feminist movement – on a rooftop overlooking the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc in Place des Pyramides, where ultra-conservative Catholics, French royalists, skinhead youths, and other groups had gathered around noon. The women unravelled a two-story high red and black banner reading “Sextermination for Nazism”, while being admonished >>>

Recently members of the Ukrainian-based, global feminist group Femen staged protests across Europe calling for “topless jihad.” While American feminists today are satisfied whipping up outrage about Mitt Romney’s binders and Sandra Fluke’s right to bill taxpayers for her birth control, Femen’s Amazonian warriors dive right in to do battle in a real War on Women being openly waged by Muslim misogynists. Topless jihad – it puts a whole new spin on #MyJihad. The protests in Sweden, Italy, Ukraine, Belgium, and France [here are images from the demonstrations; warning – most contain >>>