UPDATE: Topless Tunisian Femen Protester Amina Tyler 'Is Home Well', Says Lawyer A 19-year-old Tunisian activist who was threatened with death by stoning after posting topless pictures of herself online has reportedly been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The woman, known only as Amina, posted the photographs - including one of herself with the words "Fuck your morals" written across her chest, to the Femen-Tunisian Facebook page. Another image showing her smoking a cigarette with: "My body belongs to me, and is >>>

A Tunisian woman who hoped to join the radical feminist group FEMEN has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after posting topless photos of herself on Tunisia's FEMEN website and receiving death threats. 19-year-old Amina had been trying to start a Tunisian branch of the Ukraine-born radical feminist group, FEMEN. She created a Facebook page several weeks ago onto which she uploaded photos of herself topless, her nude body painted with phrases like "My Body is My Own and Not the Source of Anyone's Honor" and "F*ck Your Morals." The head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue >>>

A Tunisian girl is faced with criminal charges after posting a naked photo of herself on Facebook. “My body belongs to me, and is not a source of anyone’s honor,” stated Amina Tyler, the 19-year-old founder of the Tunisian branch of FEMEN, an international feminist organization, which started in Ukraine. Her actions immediately elicited death threats from Adel Almi, a prominent Islamic cleric, who told the Tunisian daily, Assabah News, that this young woman, according to Islamic law, deserves between 80 and 100 lashes, but because of the seriousness of her actions, should be >>>

Anna Breslaw View Profile RSS A 19-year-old Tunisian girl was committed to a mental hospital by her parents after posting topless photos of herself in on a website for the Ukraine-based topless radical protest group FEMEN. Amina (last name unknown), had been corresponding online with FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko since the end of February, mostly discussing the introduction of a branch in Tunisia. On March 16th, Amina appeared on the Tunisian talk >>>

Amina, a 19-year-old Tunisian aspirant to the radical, Ukraine-born feminist group Femen has been delivered by her parents to a psychiatric hospital in Tunis, according to reports received by Femen leader Inna Shevchenko in Paris. Amina (her last name is unknown) had posted topless photos of herself on the Femen web page she created for the group in Tunisia several weeks ago. One photo shows her topless, smoking a cigarette, with "My Body is My Own and Not the Source of Anyone's Honor" scrawled in Arabic across her chest. Another shows her raising her middle >>>

One day last summer, Inna Shevchenko went into a forest outside Kyiv, to learn how to use a chainsaw. The lumberjacks who were instructing her couldn't work out why she was so keen. "They thought I was just a crazy blonde," she says, shaking her white curls. "I was acting like: 'Oh really?'" She affects a coy, clueless demeanour. "'That's how you do it? Great!'"The next day she went to a hilltop overlooking Kyiv, and stripped to a pair of red denim shorts, worn with heavy boots, leather gloves, and a mask to protect her eyes. The Pussy Riot verdict was due that day, and in tribute to the >>>

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A Femen activist is detained during a protest against what they called "bloody Islamist regimes" taking part in the London Olympics. Photo: Reuters Their targets have included Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IKEA, the G-8, and the Pope. The predominantly blonde-haired, bare-breasted young women have struck in 17 countries across the world and are reported to have 150,000 supporters worldwide. They call themselves the new Amazons, boldly evoking the mythical nation of all-female warriors. Protests by Femen, as the group is named, are designed to attract >>>

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