Women bare breasts at Ukrainian court to support Tymoshenko

THE Ukrainian women’s group, Femen, took its distinctive brand of protest to the trial of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko when two activists climbed atop a police wagon outside the court and bared their breasts.

The action by the group, whose activists regularly stage topless public protests to dramatise their causes, surprised scores of police who were keeping an eye on a nearby rally by pro-Tymoshenko supporters.

The pair clambered on to the roof of the prison van parked near the Kiev city centre courtroom, removed their blouses and jeered at police and the country’s politicians who, they said, belonged inside the vehicle themselves.