An Australian journalist, three Belarusian journalists and three Ukrainian protesters have been released by KGB officers, who arrested them during a topless protest against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in front of the former Soviet spy agency's headquarters in Minsk.

Kitty Green, 27, and Femen members Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Alexandra Nemchinova were back in Kiev, Ukraine on Wednesday and told the local media of their ordeal at the hands of KGB agents in Belarus.

Green is based in Kiev to document the activities of Femen, whose members hold public demonstrations baring their breasts.
Green's flatmate in Kiev, Alexandra Shevchenko, told the Herald Sun that she left Belarus via Lithuania after the Australian embassy in Moscow assisted her while detained at the KGB headquarters. She, together with three Belarusian journalists, were fingerprinted and interrogated by KGB officers for covering the topless protest by Femen members.

In Femen's Facebook account, photos showed Shevchenko, Shachko and Nemchinova talking to reporters. The three claimed that police brought them to a forest after they were dragged away from the steps of the spy agency's headquarters.

They accused Belarusian officers of humiliating them by beating them up, stripping them naked, pouring oil on them and threatening to set them on fire and cutting their hair before leaving them in the forest without clothes and their belongings.

Femen's head Anna Gutsol told RIA Novosti on Tuesday the activists were found Tuesday in a forest in the Gomelsky district of Belarus after one of the women finally managed to get in touch with her.

The topless protest in Minsk was in support of Monday's Belarusian protest marking the first anniversary of the violent crackdown and mass arrest of demonstrators protesting the re-election of Lukashenko.