Trois Femen interpellées à Tunis après une… par lemondefr
The women shouted “Free Women”, “No Sharia” and “No Oppression”.
The mosque was largely empty at the time apart from a couple of employees and some members of the press who had been told of the planned protest in advance.
Mosque employees called police who removed the women from the scene. The women did not explain why they wanted to protest inside an empty mosque.
“They’re suspected of disorderly conduct and abuse,” police commander Jonas Svalin told reporters, saying that the mosque employees had accused the women of shoving them.
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An activist from feminist group FEMEN is arrested by Swedish police officers after staging a topless protest in support of the Egyptian opposition inside a mosque in Stockholm, June 29, 2013. Mosque employees called police who removed the women from the scene.
The women were reportedly from Egypt, Tunisia and Sweden, although police were not immediately able to confirm their identities or nationalities.
Founded in Ukraine in 2008, Femen is a self-declared “radical feminist” group known for its topless protests against sexual exploitation of women, sexism and religious institutions.–AFP
Egyptian activist Aliaa Elmahdy (L) and another member of feminist group FEMEN stage a topless protest for women’s rights and against the islamic religious law Sharia inside a Mosque in Stockholm, Sweden on June 29, 2013. Mosque employees called police who removed the women from the scene.
FEMEN PROTEST AMBASSADE DE TUNISIE FRANCE par femen_org
The women were reportedly from Egypt, Tunisia and Sweden, although police were not immediately able to confirm their identities or nationalities.
An activist from women’s rights group FEMEN is detained by a security personnel after staging a protest during a visit by Tunisia’s Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, near the European Commission in Brussels, June 25, 2013.
