Tunisia Femen (Amina) activist freed pending trial

Amina Sboui, a Tunisian activist with the topless protest group Femen, was released from jail on Thursday pending her trial for desecrating a cemetery.

Sboui, 18, left the women's prison in Sousse, south of Tunis, where she has been held since May 19, and her supporters issued a photo of her making a victory sign after she was freed.

“She is with her family,” her lawyer Ghazi Mrabet told AFP. He said he hoped arrangements had been made to look after her security, as radical Islamists have threatened Sboui in the past.

Several hours earlier, the Tunisian judiciary ordered the release of the activist ahead of her trial.

Another of her lawyers, Halim Meddeb, described the court's move as a “big surprise.”

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