Yana Zhdanova, the Ukrainian activist arrested on Christmas Day for swiping a life-size baby Jesus figurine from the St. Peter’s Square nativity scene at the Vatican while topless, was released on Saturday according to Associated Press.
She was held for questioning on Friday while Vatican police considered possible charges for “disturbing the peace, obscene acts in a public place, and theft.”
Zhdanova, a member of the women’s rights activist group Femen, marched into the tourist-packed square on Thursday about an hour after Pope Francis had blessed thousands of onlookers there. She was naked from the waist up save for the words …read more
Source: Newsweek
