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. Based on the Agence France-Presse, the women became popular 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 have been notified of the protest ahead of time, and all of the mosque was empty, based on the AFP. Mosque employees called police, who arrested the women on suspicion of disorderly conduct, in accordance with The Local. However, the women told local media outlets they certainly were lucky to reside in a country where they would merely be arrested for this type of protest.
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“If we did that demonstration within 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 have been hoping to send the message of “freedom to women” and the “freedom to own your personal individual choice to choose over your body.”
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