Femen member Amina Tyler on trial in Tunisia
Source: BBC
Amina Tyler is charged with carrying an "incendiary object". She appeared in court smiling, dressed in a white robe.
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Ms Tyler emerged from hiding earlier this month in Kairouan, where she wrote "Femen" on a wall near the city's main mosque.
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Her lawyers argue that a 19th-Century charge of carrying an incendiary object should not apply to a can of pepper spray she says she had been given by a foreign journalist for her own protection.
Lawyers saying they represented the city called for her to face the more serious charge of threatening public security. They were turned down by the judge.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22714130
If they needed a charge, I'm surprised there wasn't one of 'vandalism' available to them.
randome
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[font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font]
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cliffordu
(30,994 posts)about how civilized and progressive Tunisia was???
Hmm??
Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)..the people who doubted she was being coerced in her 'retraction' video..
..hiding in shame.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I'd like to see them explain this.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)I wish it was a joke...
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)If you slam Tunisia over one case of injustice, what do you say about the US?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)She painted Femen across a cemetery wall.