Hanna Huzol

Hanna Huzol (2012)

Hanna Wassyliwna Huzol ( Ukrainian Ганна Василівна Гуцол , Russian Анна Васильевна Гуцол * 16th October 1984 in Khmelnitsky , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is the founder and director of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN , the international by provocative actions comply won. She herself uses the English transcription of the Russian spelling of her name Anna Hutsol (the German transcription from Russian is Anna Guzol ).

Life

Hanna Huzol (left) and DJ Hell during the protest "Ukraine is not a brothel" on May 23, 2009 in Kiev

Hanna Huzol led a Marxist group as a student and began studying sociology in Kiev in 2007 . In doing so, she came across August Bebel's basic work for gender equality, Die Frau und der Sozialismus , published in 1883 . To finance her studies, she worked temporarily as a tour manager for various Ukrainian rock groups, including as assistant to pop singer Tina Karol, and found that “people are still more interested in the color of the starlet's panties than in a conference on feminism. "

Femen

In 2008 Huzol founded the feminist group "Femen" with other students in Kiev . The activists of the organization were and are mainly young women. First dressed, then topless, Femen branded rampant sex tourism and pimping in Ukraine with the slogan “Ukraine is not a brothel” (Україна - не бордель!) And demanded that men who buy sexual services be punished should be. Femen quickly gained attention in the international media, carried out campaigns in various European countries and now has extensive international branches.

Escape from Ukraine

According to media reports, Hanna Huzol (like other Femen activists) has been repeatedly threatened by the Ukrainian secret service SBU . In November 2012, Russian security forces refused to allow her to enter Russia at Saint Petersburg 's Pulkovo Airport . Together with other activists from Femen, Huzol left Ukraine in August 2013 “out of fear for her life and her freedom”. She initially lived in Paris .

Application for political asylum in Switzerland

In October 2013 Hanna Huzol applied for asylum in Switzerland . " We fled Ukraine in September on a French visa, " said Huzol in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger . Because she entered the Schengen area with a French visa from Ukraine , responsibility for the asylum procedure lies with the French authorities, stated the Federal Office for Migration (FOM) when the application was rejected in March 2014. Although Huzol's sister lives in Rorschach, the activist's chances of staying in Switzerland are slim; a family reunion was planned only for the "nuclear family" : " Actually, I just wanted to live with my sister, but that's obviously not possible ." Despite the negative decision by the BFM hopes the Far-founder to be able to stay in Switzerland; her lawyer appealed against the decision. She does not yet know whether she will return to her homeland if her request for reconsideration is rejected: “ Everyone advises me against it, it is too dangerous, ” and she does not believe that the situation in Ukraine will now improve, “ nationalism grows and the church grows stronger. "

During this time, Huzol lived in an asylum center in Busskirch . Léa Wertheimer, spokeswoman for the Federal Office for Migration (FOM), confirmed an article in the daily newspaper Südostschweiz that Huzol's request for reconsideration had been rejected and that she had to leave Rapperswil-Jona on this grounds. Until she was deported to France, she was housed in the Landegg asylum center near Rorschacherberg .

Web links

Commons : Anna Hutsol  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biographical information at yandex.ua
• Interview with Huzol at Brigitte.de , May 2009
• Interview with Huzol on the Deutsche Welle website , July 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview in Focus.ua from October 25, 2010
2. ↑ Hanna Huzol, quoted by Valérie Paillé
3. ↑ Femen . A report by Valérie Paillé. Arte May 17, 2013 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Ukrainian students: With a riot against sex tourism ; Spiegel Online July 30, 2009
5. ↑ Ukraine protest over NZ 'win a wife' competition prize ; BBC News dated March 2, 2011
6. ↑ Ukraine: Fear is back ; FAZ of November 2, 2010
7. ↑ Femen Report Leader Detained At Airport Russian ; Radio Free Europe November 16, 2012
8. ↑ Response to the raid: Femen activists flee Ukraine , SPON from August 31, 2013
9. ↑ FEMEN activists flee Ukraine over "political persecution, beatings and threats" , Kyiv Post, August 31, 2013
10. ↑ Founder of Femen seeks asylum in Switzerland , Watson of March 2, 2014
11. ↑ ^{a b} Femen boss must probably leave Switzerland . Tages-Anzeiger Switzerland. March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Simone Schmid and Anna Jikhareva: Portrait: The woman behind the breasts . Tages-Anzeiger Zurich. March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
13. ↑ Femen founder has to leave Switzerland . Tages-Anzeiger Switzerland. March 27, 2014. Accessed March 31, 2014.
14. ↑ Femen founder Anna Hutsol definitely has to leave Switzerland . Southeastern Switzerland . March 26, 2014. Accessed on March 31, 2014.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.