Gisèle Halimi

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Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb, Arabic: زايزا جيزيل إليز طيب; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and feminist activist. As a lawyer, she defended activists fighting for the Algerian nationalism, then a French colony, from the 1950s onwards, including members of the National Liberation Front (Algeria) (FLN). From 1960 onwards, she defended the activist and militant Djamila Boupacha, who was accused of attempted murder and then survived torture and rape while being detained by French soldiers. Alongside Simone de Beauvoir, she publicized the trial in order to highlight the French army's methods of torture during the Algerian War. A leading figure in French feminism, she was the only lawyer to sign the 1971 Manifesto of the 343, which brought together women who declared that they had had abortions and demanded free access to abortion, which was then illegal in France. In the wake of this, she founded the Choisir la cause des femmes...

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