Djamila Boupacha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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militant from the Algerian National Liberation Front and victim of torture by the french army
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Place of Birth: Bologhine, Algiers Province, Algeria
About Djamila Boupacha
- Djamila Bouhirete (born 9 February 1938 in Bologhine, a suburb of Algiers) is a former militant from the Algerian National Liberation Front.
- She was arrested in 1960 for attempting to bomb a cafe in Algiers.
- Her confession, which was obtained by means of torture and rape, and her subsequent trial affected French public opinion about the methods used by the French army in Algeria after publicity by Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi.
- Boupacha was sentenced to death on June 29, 1961, but was given amnesty under the Evian Accords and later freed on 21 April 1962.
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