Great to see some women standing up for women’s rights. For a change.
Daily Mail:
- Demonstration outside City Hall by feminist protest group Femen
- Police break up protest against International Olympic Committee
- Protesters had the slogan ‘No Sharia’ scrawled on their chests
- Scotland Yard: Four women arrested on suspicion of disorderly behaviour’
By Rob Preece
PUBLISHED: 08:44 EST, 2 August 2012 | UPDATED: 10:44 EST, 2 August 2012
Four topless activists from a women’s rights group were arrested today after they carried out a protest in central London.
Police were called to City Hall to deal with the protesters, who had accused the Olympics’ governing body of having supported ‘bloody’ Islamist regimes.
Pictures showed officers holding women on the ground and covering their chests.
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Struggle: A woman writhes on her back as police break up a demonstration near London’s Tower Bridge
One woman screamed as officers held her.
The demonstration near Tower Bridge, described as an ‘Islamic marathon’ by the protesters, was organised by the Ukrainian feminist group Femen.
Protesters said the demonstration was against ‘bloody’ Islamist regimes which they said had been supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Some of the women had slogans marked on their bare chests. At least one carried the message: ‘No Sharia’.
Femen, a group based in Kiev, was founded in 2008.
The organisation has become internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills.
Cry: A woman screams as police officers hold her on the ground after a protest outside City Hall
Fight: A woman with her eyes closed struggles on the ground as police hold her down
Held: Officers surround a protester who took part in the demonstration against the International Olympic Committee
Its stated goals include developing ‘leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of the young women in Ukraine’ and to ‘build up the image of Ukraine, the country with great opportunities for women’.
In a statement published on its Facebook page, the protest group said a number of its French members had been arrested.
It called on the IOC to ‘condemn violence towards women from Islamist states’.
It said: ‘Femen requires the states that apply the laws of sharia be shut out of the Olympic games, because of the inhumanity of these laws, which are in total contradiction with Olympic principles that are peace and philanthropy.
‘Femen accuses these states of simulating democratic changes regarding the position of women.
Message: A woman with the slogan ‘No Sharia’ written on her chest takes part in the protest near Tower Bridge
why didn’t you repost the money shot?
Which one is that? I am working on the video however.
The UK police aren’t really bothered about topless women. Public nudity is not the great offence that it once was. You can bet if these women were protesting against Israel, they would have been allowed to continue bare-chested.
Any protest against Sharia is one to support, this one more then most.
the ass shot with the handcuffs. break out the handcream
Those women are really in deep sh*t now. Britain pulls out all the stops when Islam might be offended.
Brave women!! I hope they have a good lawyer and not some vile leftard!!
I wonder that if the screaming mustards had held their so called “peaceful” protest of the games would be treated the same way? considering that they dont know the meaning of the word.
I bet the police would have just stood there and let them scream abuse at anyone who was close enough.