A group of female activists from FEMEN [1] protested the death sentence [2] given to Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani [3] in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kyiv on Nov. 3 (a YouTube video [4]) and at the opening ceremony for an event promoting Iranian culture on Thursday (photos of the topless protesters [5] by Sergei Svetlitsky, at FEMEN's LiveJournal blog; RUS).
Ukraine: FEMEN Activists Protest Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani's Death Sentence
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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