Career
On 11 March 2013, Tyler was the first Tunisian woman to post a photograph of herself nude from the waist up on Facebook, with the phrase "My body is mine and not the source of anybody"s honour" in Arabic. The photo was seen as scandalous and evoked strong controversies within Tunisian society comparable to the nude self-portraits of the Egyptian Aliaa Magda Elmahdy two years earlier. On 16 March, the popular talk host Naoufel Ouertani invited her to his show on Ettounsiya where she appeared disguised by pixellation.
She explained that it was not for sexual reasons that she appeared topless but to call out their demands for the women"s liberation in a patriarchal society.
Imam Adel Almi issued a fatwa for her to be punished with 100 lashes and stoned to death. She was arrested and brought to Messaadine jail in Sousse.
International protests followed for her release from detention. On 12 June 2013 a Tunisian judge convicted two French and one German FEMEN members after they were charged with public indecency while protesting for the release of Tyler.
The protestors, Pauline Hillier, Marguerite Stern, and Josephine Markmann, were released on 26 June 2013 after a Tunisian court lifted their prison sentence.
Amina Tyler was acquitted for contempt and defamation on 29 July 2013, but she remained jailed pending trial on a separate charge of desecrating a cemetery. FEMEN had staged protests in front of the Grand Mosque of Paris burning a Tawhid flag. In 2013 she moved to Paris, France where she completed high school and co-authored an autobiography, published in Paris as "My Body Belongs to me".