UKRAINE: Ukrainian Femen activist Oleksandra Shevchenko, who was recently deported from Tunisia, is arrested with two fellow protesters after staging an anti-Lukashenko topless protest in Kiev

Record ID: 718259

  • Title: UKRAINE: Ukrainian Femen activist Oleksandra Shevchenko, who was recently deported from Tunisia, is arrested with two fellow protesters after staging an anti-Lukashenko topless protest in Kiev
  • Date: 18th June 2013
  • Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (JUNE 18, 2013) (REUTERS) NIGHT SHOTS: TOPLESS FEMEN ACTIVISTS RUNNING ALONG STREET HOLDING TORCHES / SCREAMING: 'FUCK THE DICTATOR' UKRAINIAN FEMEN ACTIVIST OLEKSANDRA SHEVCHENKO ATTEMPTING TO EVADE ARREST WHILE CARRYING TORCH / APPREHENDED BY OFFICER POLICE OFFICERS APPREHEND SHEVCHENKO, WHO HAS INSULTS WRITTEN ACROSS HER TORSO POLICE CARRYING SHEVCHENKO AWAY PROTESTER WITH INSULT WRITTEN ACROSS HER CHEST, WAVING HER MIDDLE FINGER AND SAYING: 'FUCK THE DICTATOR' AS A POLICE OFFICER HOLDS BY THE WRIST ACTIVIST STRUGGLING AGAINST POLICE POLICE CARRYING ACTIVIST AWAY / ACTIVIST SCREAMING: 'BELARUS LIVES' CLOSE OF POLICE CLOSE OF SHEVCHENKO BEING HELD BY POLICE SCREAMING: 'THE LAST DICTATOR IN EUROPE, BASTARD LUKASHENKO.' POLICE ENTERING VEHICLE / ACTIVIST BEING PUSHED INTO VEHICLE
  • Embargoed: 3rd July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Ukraine
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABBXT51KRPL0UCVQSMQKBZKMMK
  • Story Text: Three Femen activists were arrested in the Ukraine capital on Tuesday (June 18) after staging a topless protest against the visit of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko.
    Among the activists arrested was Oleksandra Shevchenko, a Ukranian who arrived in Kiev on Wednesday (June 5) after being deported from Tunisia, where she had travelled to support her fellow activists.
    Shevchenko, who was deported from Tunisia as soon as she arrived in the North African country, attempted to evade arrest on Tuesday as she waved a torch while running in the dark streets of Kiev.
    When apprehended by police, the activist who had insults against Lukashenko written across her torso, screamed: "The last dictator in Europe, bastard Lukashenko."
    Activists shouted 'Belarus lives' and shouted profanities directed at Lukashenko, as officers dragged them towards a police van.
    Femen describes itself as "fighting patriarchy in its three manifestations - sexual exploitation of women, dictatorship and religion".
    Lukashenko is due to meet with his Ukraine counterpart Victor Yanukovich and other officials on Tuesday
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