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Friday, June 28, 2013

Femen activists jailed in Tunisia retract apology

The Three Femen activists -Marguerite Stern, Pauline Hillier, and Josephine Markmann Marguerite Stern, who spent a month in jail after a topless protest in Tunisia retracted the apology they made a day earlier to go free and claimed to have endured filthy and humiliating conditions in prison.

The two French women and a German member of the Ukrainian group Femen were freed overnight after a court in the Muslim country lifted their prison sentence. Hours later, on Thursday June 27,2013, they arrived in France.

The women, who were convicted for taking off their shirts outside a courthouse in the capital, Tunis, maintained during the trial that there was nothing sexual or offensive about their protest and that it was only to support an imprisoned Tunisian colleague.

All three apologised on Wednesday June 26,2013 during their appeals hearing. But , they held up clenched fists on their arrival at Paris' Orly airport and retracted those remarks.

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