Brazilian Women Stage Topless Protest (Photos)

A group of topless women protested on Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach to demand the right to go topless on Brazilian beaches, which is against the law in Brazil.


It is currently deemed an obscene act punishable by between three months and a year in prison.
The protest, in which seven women publicly exposed their breasts for several minutes, attracted a good number of curious passersby and journalists to the iconic Rio beach..


  As well as turning heads, the group hoped to turn attention to a Brazilian law which prohibits women from going topless at the beach as well as highlight cultural issues surrounding the freedom of women's bodies. "We believe that this is something that is going to take a while. It is something cultural, it will take a while to change, but there is no point in us sitting there doing nothing."So we try to make it playful, involve people so that this is received in a natural way and not seen as a protest," Nogueira told Reuters TV on Tuesday.

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