https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Bare-breasted protestors from the feminist activist group Femen on Sunday disrupted a rally of some 200 people in Madrid to mark the anniversary of the death of Spain's former dictator Francisco Franco. https://www.thelocal.es/20181118/topless-femen-activists-disrupt-rally-of-franco-fans-in-madrid Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:46:11 +0100 topless-femen-activists-disrupt-rally-of-franco-fans-in-madrid A Spanish feminist with ties to Femen was expelled from the conservative Muslim kingdom and two Moroccan men who kissed in public were arrested after a pro-gay protest, officials said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150604/spanish-feminist-expelled-from-morocco Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:30:29 +0200 spanish-feminist-expelled-from-morocco Feminists in Spain have protested against an advert that they claim objectifies women into nothing more than "pieces of meat". https://www.thelocal.es/20150507/feminist-protest-against-sexist-optician-advert Thu, 07 May 2015 14:00:13 +0200 feminist-protest-against-sexist-optician-advert A protestor with radical feminist protest group Femen was arrested on Thursday morning after staging a bare breasted protest against Spain's new controversial "gagging law". https://www.thelocal.es/20150423/femen-protestor-corners-spains-interior-minister Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:41:27 +0200 femen-protestor-corners-spains-interior-minister Activists with radical protest group Femen demonstrated at a mobile conference on Monday against Facebook for its 'machismo' attitude in censoring the group's topless photographs. https://www.thelocal.es/20150303/zuckerberg-get-off-my-nipples-femen Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:52:00 +0100 zuckerberg-get-off-my-nipples-femen Four bare-breasted Femen activists threw eggs at the Spanish Interior Ministry headquarters on Thursday to protest against the recent shelving of a gang rape case in Malaga. https://www.thelocal.es/20140828/topless-activists-pelt-eggs-at-ministry-in-rape-demo-femen Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:53:00 +0200 topless-activists-pelt-eggs-at-ministry-in-rape-demo-femen Spain's top cardinal has irritated both the ruling party and all its political opposition by implying during the funeral of the country's first democratic Prime Minister that Spain could be facing another Civil War. https://www.thelocal.es/20140402/bishop-2 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:16:00 +0200 bishop-2 Five activists belonging to controversial feminist group Femen have staged a protest against an anti-abortion demonstration in Spain's capital by baring their breasts and painting skulls on their faces. https://www.thelocal.es/20140324/femen-attack-pro-life-demo-disguised-as-death Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:20:12 +0100 femen-attack-pro-life-demo-disguised-as-death Bare-breasted feminists belonging to the exhibitionist protest group FEMEN hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he arrived at church on Sunday in protest against his support for Spain's stringent new abortion law. https://www.thelocal.es/20140203/bare-breasted-feminists-besiege-pro-life-bishop Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:34:11 +0100 bare-breasted-feminists-besiege-pro-life-bishop Feminist activists mounted a bare-breasted protest outside a Madrid church on Monday to decry Spain's plan to ban women from freely opting for abortion. https://www.thelocal.es/20131223/femen-bare-breasts-against-spain-abortion-law Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:21:00 +0100 femen-bare-breasts-against-spain-abortion-law Bare-breasted activists from the Femen feminist movement briefly disrupted an anti-abortion march in Madrid on Sunday, as thousands urged the government to ban the terminating of pregnancies in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20131118/topless-femen-activists-disrupt-spain-anti-abortion-demo Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:46:00 +0100 topless-femen-activists-disrupt-spain-anti-abortion-demo A university lecturer and renowned feminist is suing the Spanish Parliament's Speaker of the House after security staff forced her to strip down to her underwear because she had the wrong surname. https://www.thelocal.es/20131022/feminist-forced-to-strip Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:14:00 +0200 feminist-forced-to-strip The topless protesters who caused a stir in Spain's Parliament on Wednesday with their pro-abortion message have been released from detention after the judge overseeing the case said a display of breasts did not threaten public order. https://www.thelocal.es/20131010/going-topless-doesnt-disturb-peace-judge Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:10:18 +0200 going-topless-doesnt-disturb-peace-judge Three women staged a topless protest on Wednesday outside the Tunisian embassy in Madrid calling on Tunis to free three fellow activists detained for a bare-breasted anti-Islamist demonstration in the north African nation. https://www.thelocal.es/20130612/topless-activists-target-madrids-tunisian-embassy Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:13:00 +0200 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