AP
The Femen activist group has made headlines around the world
by baring their breasts to protest against prostitution, exploitation
and corruption. Here, a November 2011 protest in Vatican City.
AP
Femen activist Alexandra Shevchenko gets seized by policemen outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev.
REUTERS
Here, Femen activists condemn the April 27 bomb attacks in
the city of Dnipropetrovsk and criticize the security services'
preparations for the Euro 2012 soccer championship at the entrance to a
metro station in Kiev on May 3.
AFP
The group also protests outside their native Ukraine. Here, a
protest at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in the Swiss resort
of Davos in January 2012.
DPA
A Ukrainian Femen activist gets dragged away by police
during a protest in Istanbul on International Women's Day, March 8,
2012.
Valeria Mitelman/ DER SPIEGEL
Femen activist Oksana Shachko is a professional icon painter
and lives in a run-down studio apartment in Kiev with greenish mold on
the ceiling.
Valeria Mitelman/ DER SPIEGEL
Anna Hutsol is one of the group's main ideologues.
AFP
During the Russian presidential election on March 4, Femen
tried to seize the ballot box containing Vladimir Putin's vote in
Moscow.
AFP
The group is also protesting against the Euro 2012 football championship, which Ukraine is co-hosting.
DPA
A protest against political repression in Kiev (August
2011). Can the naked stunts change anything, or are they just providing
images for a sex-obsessed media?
DPA
A protest in Belarus was one of the riskiest the group has
done. "The reaction to a nude protest is a measure of freedom in a
country," says one Femen activist. "We were not arrested in Switzerland,
but we were almost killed in Belarus."
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