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Sasha (with the blonde hair) protesting outside a mosque in Berlin with other FEMEN members.VICE: Hi Sasha. What's your involvement with FEMEN?
Sasha Shevchenko: I'm a co-founder, so I'm creating the ideology, strategy and tactics of the movement. And, at the moment, I'm leading FEMEN Germany. Our plans are to go to Latin America after Germany to develop FEMEN there next.How did you meet Amina?
Amina contacted me through a German activist, Klara, about a month and a half ago and we started to discuss FEMEN Tunisia via Skype and Facebook. A few days later she made her first picture – "Fuck your morals" – and posted it on her Facebook page. Then, over the next two weeks, she took more photos of herself. We were keeping in touch and were planning on us going over to Tunisia for a public action.And what's happened to her now?
She disappeared after a speech by the Salafist imam Adel Almi and it turned out she'd been captured by the police and a few members of her family. We started the campaign to save Amina during those few days of silence, but now we've finally found out that she's alive. She's suffering, but she's alive.Have you managed to get in contact with her? Do you know how she's doing?
No, she's completely under her family's control and has been drugged, so it's impossible to get hold of her.
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We've developed our tactics and we're calling it "sextremism", but it'll still be in the style of protests we've done before.What's the message you're sending out to the world?
The official message we're sending is: "The one who was oppressed will become free, the one who was weak will become strong. Our bodies belong to us only! Islamism is strong in the face of those who are oppressed, but Islamism is weak when faced with the rebellion of our free bodies! Our breasts are more dangerous then their stones!"What do you think we've learned about feminism throughout the Arab Spring?
We've learned that women are just instruments in the hands of revolutionaries, no matter what the revolution might be. Women can become free only by their own revolution against patriarchy, never as a part of society of men and for men. Only naked war. We don't have other ways.Okay, great – thanks Sasha. Anything else you want to say?
Naked freedom. Fuck religion! Women are against Islamism! Our tits are deadlier than your stones!Keep up to date with FEMEN at their website.Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @RebeccaCFitzMore feminist stuff:Lena Dunham Made Me a FeministYou're a Pussy if You Think There's a War On MenI Was Raped and the Police Told Me I Made it UpThere's a Feminist Propaganda War