Amina Sboui at M'saken court, south of Tunis, last Monday. The Tunisian judiciary on Thursday ordered the release of Femen activist Amina Sboui pending trial for desecrating a cemetery, her lawyer Halim Meddeb told AFP. (AFP/File)
TUNIS (AFP) – The Tunisian judiciary on Thursday ordered the release of Femen activist Amina Sboui pending trial for desecrating a cemetery, her lawyer Halim Meddeb told AFP.
"She will be free within hours. I wasn't expecting this," he said, adding that the young woman detained since May faces trial for painting the word "Femen" on a cemetery wall in protest at a planned meeting of radical Sunni Muslim Salafists.
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