Photo Gallery Ukraine's Topless Protesters
Using a woman's weapons: Ukrainian women's rights group Femen fights sex tourism and prostitution with breasts bared.
Femen's activities have struck a nerve with Ukrainian authorities. The Ukrainian security service SBU has investigated members and threatened to "break the legs" of Femen's leader if she didn't stop anti-government attacks. Femen protesters often end up behind bars.
Even Facebook took a shot at Femen, deleting the group's Facebook page for suspected pornographic activity.
Bare-breasted protests are common.
As is lots of leg.
Femen protests take to the streets in Kiev's Independence Square.
Femen activists don't consider their eye-catching protesting to be problematic: "We have the right to use our bodies as weapons. It was men who made breasts into a secret."
State authorities have gone to great measures to suppress Femen's actions in the Ukraine.
Security guards also keep their eyes peeled for Femen protesters. Here, a guard attempts to remove a protestor from a cultural event in Kiev.
Despite government threats, Femen carries on with its activities. Although the organization remains small, the topless protests have given it a global reputation.
