Shouting
slogans like “Free women” and “No Sharia,” a trio of unclad female
protesters from the infamous Ukrainian-based group FEMEN converged on a
Swedish mosque Saturday and were promptly arrested.
According to the Agence France-Presse, the women took off their long,
black robes in the central Stockholm mosque, revealing their bodies
painted with phrases including, “No sharia in Egypt and the world” and
“My body is mine, not somebody’s honor.”
The press had been notified of the protest in advance, and most of
the mosque was empty, according to the AFP. Mosque employees called
police, who arrested the women on suspicion of disorderly conduct,
according to The Local.
However, the women told local media outlets they were lucky to live
in a country where they would merely be arrested for such a protest.
“If we did that demonstration in my country, we [would get] defiled,
we’re going to be cut with knives, we were going to be killed,” Egyptian
protester Aliaa Magda Elmahdy told the Swedish station AftonBladet.
Another protester told the outlet that she and her fellow protesters
had been hoping to send the message of “freedom to women” and the
“freedom to have your own individual choice to decide over your body.”
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