A Ukrainian organisation of topless women activists says three of its members were abducted by security officers during a protest against Belarus authoritarian president, beaten, humiliated and left naked in a forest.
The group, called Femen, has become widely known in Ukraine and neighboring countries for its demonstrations in which women bare their breasts to draw attention to an array of causes.
A statement Tuesday on Femen’s website says the three activists were seized by agents of the Belarusian KGB at Minsk’s train station on Monday evening, several hours after they held a protest against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The three had bared their breasts on the steps of the KGB headquarters in Minsk on Monday in a demonstration against Lukashenko on the first anniversary of his re-election. Agents quickly broke up that demonstration and arrested several journalists and Femen's Australian videographer Kitti Green, but the three activists were able to flee, Femen said. It said Green was deported to Lithuania.
Lukashenko has repressed opposition and independent media since becoming leader of the former Soviet republic in 1994.
The group, called Femen, has become widely known in Ukraine and neighboring countries for its demonstrations in which women bare their breasts to draw attention to an array of causes.
A statement Tuesday on Femen’s website says the three activists were seized by agents of the Belarusian KGB at Minsk’s train station on Monday evening, several hours after they held a protest against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The three had bared their breasts on the steps of the KGB headquarters in Minsk on Monday in a demonstration against Lukashenko on the first anniversary of his re-election. Agents quickly broke up that demonstration and arrested several journalists and Femen's Australian videographer Kitti Green, but the three activists were able to flee, Femen said. It said Green was deported to Lithuania.
Lukashenko has repressed opposition and independent media since becoming leader of the former Soviet republic in 1994.
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