Pravdaru: Naked Ukrainian Feminists Tortured in Belarus

Activists of Ukraine's FEMEN movement claim that they were kidnapped after their topless action against the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The action took place in the Belarusian capital Minsk, on December19. The women have already returned to Ukraine. In the meantime, the chief of the KGB of Belarus, Vadim Zaitsev, stated that his agents had not taken any actions against the Ukrainian women. According to him, it was a predetermined provocation against the "special services" of Belarus. Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Alexander Nemchinova arrived in Kiev on Wednesday night. The women came to the Ukrainian capital accompanied by the Ukrainian consul. The consul arrived at the village of Beki, the Gomel region of Belarus, immediately, after it was said that the FEMEN activists were staying there. The women said they had been tortured by strangers in the woods, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Alexander Dikusarov. The press release posted on FEMEN's LiveJournal page said that Inna Shevchenko was the first to have contacted the movement. The woman said that she and her two associates had been seized by "special services" of Belarus. According to her, the agents blindfolded the women and put them in the bus, which then traveled all night. Afterwards, the agents took them to the forest, poured oil on them, and threatened to put them on fire. The men also made the Ukrainian women strip naked, ant threatened them with a knife. The women said the agents were filming all of these torture events. When the men got tired with what they were doing, they took the women's documents and money, and left them alone in the forest.