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Ukraine: FEMEN Activists Protest Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani's Death Sentence

Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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Posted 12 November 2010 1:10 GMT

A group of female activists from FEMEN protested the death sentence given to Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kyiv on Nov. 3 (a YouTube video) and at the opening ceremony for an event promoting Iranian culture on Thursday (photos of the topless protesters by Sergei Svetlitsky, at FEMEN's LiveJournal blog; RUS).

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