Campaigners
including Richard Dawkins have called for a day of action to support a young
Tunisian woman who appeared to post pictures of herself topless as part of a
feminist movement in the country, and was subsequently threatened with death by
stoning.
The 19-year-old
activist, identified only as Amina, posted on the Femen-Tunisian Facebook page
a topless picture of herself with the words “F**k your morals” written across
her chest.
Another
controversial image followed, of the woman smoking a cigarette, baring her
breasts, with the Arabic written across her chest: “My body belongs to me, and
is not the source of anyone’s honour”.
Tunisian newspaper
Kapitalis quoted the Wahabi Salafi preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission
for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: “The young lady
should be punished according to sharia, with 80 to 100 lashes, but [because of]
the severity of the act she has committed, she deserves be stoned to death.
“Her act could
bring about an epidemic. It could be contagious and give ideas to other women.
It is therefore necessary to isolate [the incident]. I wish her to be healed.”
If she committed
the offense in Tunisia, Amina could be punished by up to two years in prison
and a fine of 100 to 1,000 dinars [between £40 and £400], local media said.
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