Mary Braun, 72, and Tina Jmaeff, 67, were taken into police custody and later transferred to a Vancouver-area correction centre.

Braun and Jmaeff were on parole after convictions for burning down buildings in the Kootenays. The women also gained notoriety for several hunger strikes while in prison in the 1980s.

GRAND FORKS - A Grand Forks woman staged a fiery protest in the nude this week in the front lobby of the RCMP building here.

A police spokesman said Tuesday the woman entered the building Monday and started to take her clothes off and set fire to them.

She was protesting against the jailing of two other so-called Sons of Freedom women, described by Grand Forks RCMP as a sect of Russian-speaking dissenters.

Pauline Berikoff, 54, was charged with mischief. There was minor damage to the RCMP building.

In a similar incident Sunday, two women took their clothes off and tried to set fire to a private residence, said the police spokesman.

Mary Braun, 72, and Tina Jmaeff, 67, were taken into police custody and later transferred to a Vancouver-area correction centre.

Braun and Jmaeff were on parole after convictions for burning down buildings in the Kootenays. The women also gained notoriety for several hunger strikes while in prison in the 1980s.