Amina Sboui, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Solmaz Vakilpour,
Safia Lebdi, Meriam Russel, Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger.
Amina Sboui is a Tunisian feminist who was detained for nearly three months for posting photos on Facebook with the words “My body belongs to me” scrawled on her bare chest. She was inspired by Femen, but she has since left the feminist group, accusing it of Islamophobia and lack of financial transparency.
On March 8, she demonstrated naked in front of the Louvre pyramid to denounce women’s oppression in muslim countries.
Equipped with Tunisian flags, Iranian arc-en-ciel and French, the women undressed before entering the museum and walking on the edge of the ponds surrounding the pyramid. They chanted “freedom secularism equality”. “We did this in solidarity with Arab women who are stoned throughout the Islamic world, throughout the Arab world,” Sboui explained. “It is against sharia, against sexism, against stoning, against the burqa, against the veil.”