Femen member Amina Tyler on trial in Tunisia

[muriel_volestrangler]

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

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If they needed a charge, I'm surprised there wasn't one of 'vandalism' available to them.

[randome]

1. A charge of 'being female' would also have worked, I'm sure.

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[cliffordu]

2. Hmm..Where are the Tunisian apologists that squawked for days

about how civilized and progressive Tunisia was???

Hmm??

[Phillip McCleod]

3. the same place no doubt as..

..the people who doubted she was being coerced in her 'retraction' video..

..hiding in shame.

[backscatter712]

4. A very good question!

I'd like to see them explain this.

[idwiyo]

6. Heh, My guess is they are trying to figure the best way to spin it against Amina and FEMEN.

[idwiyo]

7. Well, at least one of them is busy spinning CT about FEMEN and "forces of chaos"...

I wish it was a joke...

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. There are competing currents in Tunisia, just as elsewhere.

If you slam Tunisia over one case of injustice, what do you say about the US?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Yes - odd that vandalism wasn't mentioned

She painted Femen across a cemetery wall.