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Topless protests in belarus

  • 20-12-2011 8:19pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16275566

    A Ukrainian women's group which specialises in topless protests says three of its activists were kidnapped and abused in Belarus.
    Three members of Femen were seized on Monday after a topless protest in the Belarusian capital Minsk before being abandoned in a forest, they said.
    They had been protesting on the first anniversary of President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election.
    Belarusian security services declined to comment on Femen's allegations.
    The group says three women were blindfolded, taken to a forest, doused with oil and made to strip. Then they were threatened with being set on fire, and with a knife which was used to cut their hair.
    Femen says the ordeal was filmed, and the women were then left in the forest naked, with no documents. They managed to make their way by foot to a small village.
    The Ukrainian embassy in Minsk has not confirmed Femen's allegations, but told the BBC that a diplomat was on his way to the region where the woman were left to investigate.
    Belarusian security services declined to comment on Femen's claims. A spokesman had described the group's protest in Minsk on Monday as "a provocation".
    The three protesters had bared their breasts and demanded freedom for political prisoners.
    At least six journalists were arrested for covering the protest, AFP news agency reports.
    Demonstrations are relatively rare in Belarus, where the authoritarian rule of Mr Lukashenko has led to sanctions by Western governments.
    In December 2010, authorities cracked down on protests against alleged vote-rigging in the general election.
    International monitors said the contest, in which Mr Lukashenko officially won 80% of the vote, was deeply flawed.



    Should invite them over here, As you would no doubt get thousands of people marching with them, I hope to keep you all abreast of this serious situation in case it all goes tits up.:D


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Tits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Pics Tits or GTFO!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Many AHers will be disappointed with the lack of tits in the link.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Now thats a protest!

    pity about the rest of the story


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Femen are by far my favourite militant feminst group.
    They have my complete support.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Cian A wrote: »
    Many AHers will be disappointed with the lack of tits in the link.

    No argument with that, so I breast my case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Tits.


    Can some udders do it as I cant :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    Currently getting lost in their Facebook page.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Cool_CM wrote: »
    Femen are by far my favourite militant feminst group.
    They have my complete support.
    Are you a bra?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Cool_CM wrote: »
    Femen are by far my favourite militant feminst group.
    They have my complete support.
    Are you a bra?
    I wish


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    There are videos of them on Vimeo. All very jiggly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Are you a bra?


    Booby trap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Naos wrote: »
    Currently getting lost in their Facebook page.

    http://www.facebook.com/Femen.UA
    (Now with added 'Like'! :))


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nancy Raspy Xylophone


    poor women


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Fair play to them, fighting real issues, not protesting at a few bikini clad model adverts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    I'd eh..."cover" that protest and I'm not even a journalist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Apparently it was KGB and Minsk police that doused them in petrol and threatened to set them on fire.
    There has been contact with one of the missing girls in Belarus, FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko. Inna said that she and her two friends were at the train station of Minsk yesterday at 7 pm. They were seized by the police and KGB, blindfolded and driven all night on a bus. They were brought into the woods, doused with petrol, made to undress, threatened to be set afire and threatened with a knife. The knife-wielder later cut off her hair. Everything that happened was filmed by the KGB, who then left them naked in the woods with no papers. In the village Beka the girls walked out of the woods.
    http://animalnewyork.com/2011/12/femen-girls-assaulted-stripped-in-forest-by-belorussian-police/

    Somehow I don't think "tits" is a good answer to that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭mlumley




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Belarus is Europe's last Stalinist dictatorship and the dictator Lukashenko is a psychopathic, sociopathic dickhead thug sui generis. There are plenty of things to protest there, and anyone who does so has to be very brave.:eek:

    However, given the weather they have there, going topless is guaranteed to lead only to tears - and blue tits.:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Ellis Dee wrote: »
    ...going topless is guaranteed to lead only to tears - and blue tits.:)

    Aaa... yesss. Now there is some bird watching I could really get into.

    *Gets camera with huge zoom lens* :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Any chance of snatch?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    They have a website!!!!!

    http://www.femen.org/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    I hear the weather is a bit nipply in Minsk this time of year.

    (some of them are quite talented it must be said, well worth a google)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    I'm right behind these girls!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Down with that sort of thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    Hopefully all the cellulite-encrusted feminists we have here in Ireland don't start to protest in the same way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    The_Thing wrote: »
    Hopefully all the cellulite-encrusted feminists we have here in Ireland don't start to protest in the same way.


    Nah, I'm sure there is a hunky dory or club orange ad campaign to complain about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    MCM likes Femen Ukraine and 18 other (femen) pages.

    MCM hides this activity from his profile.

    *awaits hot pics of nekkid wimmins*

    Gigitty, gigitty goo! :)


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