Two members of controversial feminist campaign group Femen were arrested on Tuesday in Morocco after protesting topless in front of a Rabat landmark against the kingdom’s treatment of gays, authorities said.
The women, aged 25 and 30, were arrested as they tried to return to France, Morocco’s national security agency said. The women appeared early Tuesday at the Tour Hassan site, which features a half-built minaret from the 12th century and the tomb of King Mohammed V
The couple then stripped to the waist in the presence of a number of journalists and kissed while showing off naked torsos emblazoned with “in gay we trust.” Security forces weren’t present at the time.
Homosexuality is against the law in Morocco and periodically people are jailed for it, though like the laws against alcohol and sex outside marriage, it is not generally enforced.
