Djamila boupacha biography of abraham
Djamila boupacha biography of abraham
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Djamila Boupacha
Algerian militant (born )
Not to be confused with Djamila Bouhired.
Djamila Boupacha (Arabic: جميلة بوباشا, born 9 February ) is a former militant from the Algerian National Liberation Front.
She was arrested in for attempting to bomb a cafe in Algiers.[1]
Her confession, which was purportedly 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 29 June , but was given amnesty under the Evian Accords and later freed on 21 April
Early life
Djamila Boupacha was born on 9 February , in Saint-Eugène (today Bologhine) to an uneducated but French-speaking father (Abdelaziz Boupacha) and a mother (Zoubida Amarouche) who did not speak French.[2]
She joined the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (UDMA) of Ferhat Abbas in , at the age of 15, and later