The FEMEN acticists abducted and beaten in Belarus on December 19 started a petition to the Ukranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the call to immediately start international investigation on the abduction and torture of Ukrainian citizens.

On December 19, activists from FEMEN group held an action in front of the KGB headquarters in Minsk on occasion of the anniversary of post-election protests.

The girls stripped down and raised posters “Long Live Belarus!”

The girls drew a moustache on their faces. One of the activists had a drawing of Lukashenka on her back. The activists were chanting “Long live Belarus!”, “Nasha Niva” reports.

KGB security officers detained “Nasha Niva” video operator Tatsyana Haurylchyk, independent photographer Yulia Darashkevich and a journalist, whose name remains unknown. It’s possible it was a foreign journalist.

Later in the evening the activists of FEMEN who organized the action near the building of KGB in Minsk on December 19 have been found in a forest near the village of Beki in Yelsk District of Homel Province.

The Ukrainians say that they were taken out of Minsk with sacks on their heads, oil was poured on them and they were left alone without clothes.

One of the abducted feminists, Ina Shevchenko, has informed her colleague Alexandra Shevchenko about it. She borrowed a cell phone from a passer-by.

Shevchenko: “They were left there naked, without any belongings, phones or money. They were beaten and their hair was cut”.

Alexandra received another phone call during her interview with Euroradio. Her colleague informed her how they had been detained and where they had spent the whole night.

Shevchenko: “They were detained at the railway terminal, blindfolded and stayed in some bus the whole night. They were driven to a forest. Then oil was poured on them, they were beaten and threatened with a knife. Their hair was cut with the knife. Everything was filmed. They were left in the forest in the morning and had to walk to that village”.

FEMEN has called on Belarusians to give accommodation to Ina Shevchenko and her friends until representatives of the Ukrainian Embassy come to them.

The feminists are indignant at the way Belarusian special police troops treat women. Alexandra Shevchenko says that members of special police troops did it to the girls. However, none of the offenders showed their IDs to the girls.

You can support FEMEN by signing the petition.