Djamila Bouhired

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Djamila Bouhired (Arabic: جميلة بوحيرد; born June 1935) is an Algerian nationalist militant, who opposed the French colonial rule of Algeria as a member of the National Liberation Front (FLN). In 1957, she was convicted alongside another Algerian rebel, Djamila Bouazza, of bombing a café and killing 11 people. She was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted after an international campaign led by activists, intellectuals, and her lawyer Jacques Vergès, who publicized allegations of the torture by the French army that she had gone through and criticized French colonial rule in Algeria. Her case attracted widespread attention in France and abroad. This turned her into a prominent symbol of colonial resistance during the Algerian War. She was released from prison in 1962.

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