BARE-BREASTED BABES MAKE TUNISIANS AWARE OF THEIR POINTS

Had some bare-breasted feminists protested in front of an American courthouse they might have gotten a longer jail sentences than those give to three women in Tunisia.

TOPLESS FEMINIST PROTESTERS ARRESTED AFTER TARGETING THE MOTORCADE OF THE TUNISIAN PRIME MINISTER
Two protesters successfully climbed on top of Ali Larayedh's diplomatic car as it left the EU Headquarters in Brussels following the sentencing by a Tunisian court of three Femen activists to four months and a day in prison for staging a topless protest

Mail Online
June 25, 2013

Bare-breasted members of the feminist group Femen targeted the motorcade of Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh to protest the jailing of group members in Tunis.

As the Tunisian motorcade left following a visit to European Union headquarters, two women climbed atop a diplomatic car and two others chanted slogans.

Security officials dragged the women off the car, and all four ran away from the scene.

Earlier this month, a Tunisian court sentenced three Femen activists who staged a topless protest to four months and a day in prison.

They were protesting in support of Amina Tyler, 19, who was arrested days earlier.

She had sparked outrage in the conservative country by posting topless pictures of herself to Facebook wearing the slogan 'My body belongs to me' in Arabic across her bare chest.

She was taken into hiding by her family after conservative preachers issued death threats against her, including one who called for her to be stoned to death.

But she later attempted another protest on May 19 in the religious centre of Kairouan, where she was arrested.

Marguerite Stern and Pauline Hillier, from France, and Josephine Markmann, from Germany, were arrested on 29 May as they protested bare-chested in front of the Tunis Court building.

The trio had approached the entrance to the ministry wearing coats which they took off, revealing naked torsos scrawled with 'Breasts Feed Revolution'.

Wearing just jean shorts, the women chanted in English 'Free Amina' and 'Women's spring is coming' as people in the crowd attempted to cover them.

The women then climbed up on the gates of the Justice Ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered.

Amnesty International has condemned the convictions for public indecency, undermining public morals, and making noise disturbing peace as 'an unacceptable restriction on freedom of expression'.

Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy Middle East and North Africa programme director at Amnesty, last week said: 'Imprisoning people for expression is inherently disproportionate.

'Even if some may consider the three women's protest offensive or counter-productive, this cannot justify placing them behind bars.

'If the Tunisian authorities are serious about respecting their international human rights obligations, they should release the three women.'