Five bare-breasted protesters dressed as Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic confronted a phalanx of CRS riot police in Paris on Saturday, bringing an unexpected turn to a fifth weekend of “yellow-vest” protests.
French police on Sunday arrested three topless rights protesters who approached the motorcade of US President Donald Trump on the Champs-Elysees in Paris heading to a ceremony marking 100 years since the end of World War I.
A topless protester burst into a hall where French far-right leader Marine Le Pen had just begun delivering a foreign policy speech on Thursday, shouting "Marine, Pretend Feminist".
The Paris-based topless feminist group Femen is fighting for its right to protest bare-chested, saying the laws preventing its members from displaying their upper bodies to get their messages across are nothing short of discrimination against women.
Topless feminists from Femen planned their own special welcome for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday by staging a mock hanging from a Paris bridge in protest over the country’s human rights abuses.
Two topless activists from the self-proclaimed "sextremist" group Femen were violently dragged away after storming the stage at a conference on women and Islam near Paris.
Topless protesters from the radical feminist group Femen turned up outside the Paris courthouse on Sunday afternoon, calling for an end to the court proceedings against two members of their group charged with indecent exposure.
A 'sextremist' Femen activist was fined over €6,000 for stabbing a wax statue of Russian president Vladimir Putin during one of the topless protests in Paris that her group has become famous for.
Topless Femen protesters brandishing plastic Kalashnikov rifles marched in Paris on Wednesday urging 'infidels' to rise up against the Islamic militants who've seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Radical feminists were acquitted of all charges related to their topless protest at Paris's landmark Notre Dame Cathedral, which drew worldwide attention. However, some security guards accaused of manthandling the Femen activists didn't get off so easy.
The same day President Vladimir Putin was to arrive in France for D-Day anniversary events, radical feminist protest group Femen destroyed the Russian leader's statue in a Paris wax museum.
Nine members of the radical feminist group Femen are due to appear in court in Paris on Friday, charged with desecrating Notre Dame cathedral with a topless celebration of the resignation of Pope Benedict.(SEE VIDEO)
Militant feminist organisation Femen, is once again causing a stir in France. But this time it's not one of their topless protests that has provoked outrage, but a new postage stamp, which honours Marianne, the face of the French revolution.
France might not have been keen on granting political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden but it emerged on Monday that Paris has agreed to take in Inna Shevchenko, the Ukranian leader of militant feminist organization Femen.
The appeals trial of three European activists with women's protest group Femen, jailed for baring their breasts in Tunis, was adjourned on Friday, their lawyer said.
VIDEO: Topless feminist activists from the militant group Femen tried to accost the French President François Hollande as he visited the Paris airshow on Friday. Hollande's security guards were quick to intervene to protect the president.
Two French members of radical feminist group Femen, along with one German, have been given four-month prison sentences in Tunisia for "an attack on public morals" and "indecency", after bearing their breasts in a protest last month.
Two French women and one German, members of activist group Femen, were arrested in Tunisia on Wednesday, after baring their breasts outside a courthouse in Tunis. Their leader in Paris told The Local, "We are ready for any reaction."
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was evacuated for the second time in two days on Wednesday when a topless feminist staged a mock suicide in front of the altar the day after far-right historian Dominique Venner shot himself in the church.
Femen, a group of topless feminists staged their latest protest on Sunday this time disrupting a march by supporters of France’s far-right in Paris. Four bare-chested women unfurled a banner which read “Sextermination for Nazism”.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has launched legal action against the feminist group Femen who flashed their breasts in the heart of historic church to “celebrate” Pope Benedict’s decision to step down.
Valérie Trierweiler, the girlfriend of French President François Hollande, has given plans to legalise gay marriage her personal seal of approval by announcing she will be a witness at one of the first ceremonies.
Four people suspected of attacking a group of topless feminists at a Paris demonstration earlier this month were arrested and detained on Wednesday, police said.
