Inna Shevchenko
Inna Shevchenko ( Ukrainian Інна Шевченко ; born June 23, 1990 in Cherson , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a prominent activist of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen (proper spelling FEMEN). In April 2013 she was granted political asylum in France .
Shevchenko was born the daughter of an officer and grew up in Kherson. From 2008 to 2012 she studied journalism at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev . In 2009 she joined Femen. During a protest by the group in the Belarusian capital Minsk , Shevchenko, along with two other activists, was arrested, abused and threatened with death by members of the Belarusian secret service in December 2011 .
On August 17, 2012, Shevchenko, wearing only red hot pants , cut down a large wooden cross with a chainsaw in the center of Kiev as part of a solidarity campaign with the Russian band Pussy Riot , allegedly as a protest against the Russian Orthodox Church . However, this cross was erected by the Greek Catholic Church in memory of the victims of the Stalinist repression . The Ukrainian authorities then investigated Shevchenko and other activists involved in the action. On September 5, 2012, it was reported on the Femen website that Shevchenko had left Ukraine and is now in France. In Ukraine, she was subject to constant surveillance by the SBU , and there were fears that she would be arrested.
In autumn 2012, Shevchenko played a key role in founding a Femen “training center” in Paris . During a live interview with the Arabic-speaking Qatari television broadcaster Al Jazeera, she bared her upper body in October 2012, after which the image transmission was interrupted.
On July 8, 2013, Femen stated on its website that the competent French authorities had granted Shevchenko political asylum on April 9 because she could be prosecuted in her home country. When a new French postage stamp with the portrait of the French national figure Marianne was presented on July 14, 2013 , the two designers Olivier Ciappa and David Kawena stated that the appearance of Shevchenko had also “inspired” them.
When Shevchenko took part in a panel discussion in a Copenhagen cultural center on February 14, 2015 on the subject of “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression ”, there was an Islamist- motivated attack on the participants of the event, in which automatic weapons were fired through the windows. Shevchenko was able to escape unharmed through the back exit.
Web links
- Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on Femen with extensive mention of Shevchenko from June 7, 2012
- Sextremism: The New Way for Feminism to Be! Article by Inna Shevchenko in the Huffington Post , July 2013
- Jeffrey Tayler: The Woman Behind Femen's Topless Protest Movement. In: The Atlantic of May 13, 2013 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article by Gleb Garanich, reuters.com from March 1, 2012
- ^ KGB kidnapped women , website of n-tv from December 20, 2011
- ↑ Ukraine News August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Police question FEMEN activist on sawing down memorial cross , Kyiv Post of October 22, 2012
- ↑ FEMEN activist escapes from Ukraine to France , Kyiv Post, September 7, 2012
- ↑ Axel Veiel: Sextremism in Paris. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 15, 2013, accessed July 13, 2013 .
- ^ Femen activist undresses at al-Jazeera , Spiegel Online from October 26, 2012
- ↑ Letter from the competent French authority Ofpra regarding the granting of refugee status to Shevchenko, accessed on July 17, 2013 ( memento of January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Femen activist Shevchenko receives asylum in France , Die Zeit from July 8, 2013
- ^ Inna Shevchenko, topless Femen activist, wins asylum in France , The Guardian of July 8, 2013
- ↑ Eyewitness Inna Shevchenko: "We have to celebrate ideas, draw, write, laugh" . Spiegel Online , February 15, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shevchenko, Inna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шевченко, Інна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian women's rights activist, Femen group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kherson , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |