After becoming an international internet sensation, the infamous topless Tunisian protestor is now facing the consequences of her actions back in her home country. While Tunisia has previously had some of most progressive laws for women in the Arab world, the conservatives of the country have been less than impressed with her semi-naked photos.
Mr. Adel Alami, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Tunisia, called this week for the unnamed girl to be whip-lashed one hundred times in punishment. Then, fearing that he might be going easy on the nude feminist, Alami changed his mind and decided on stoning instead.
The anonymous woman posted the pictures of herself on the internet to coincide with International Women's Day and wrote across her torso, "My body is mine, it is not the source of anyone's honor", in Arabic. [Al Bawaba] Read more
