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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Tunisia frees Femen topless protest activists -Thursday June 27,2013

A court in Tunisia has freed three European feminists jailed for staging a topless protest.

Bahri Souhaib their lawyer said their sentences had been suspended, and that they would leave Tunisia as soon as possible

The members of the activist group Femen - two French and one German - were arrested outside a courtroom in Tunis.


They were sentenced to four months and one day in prison after being convicted of public indecency, in a protest in support of a Tunisian activist.They were also convicted of offending public morals and threatening public order.

The women - Pauline Hillier, Marguerite Stern and Josephine Markmann - argued that there had been nothing sexual or offensive about their protest, the first of its kind seen in the Arab world

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