Word: djamila
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...Ahmed Ben Bella, at least temporarily in control as head of Algeria's Political Bureau, gave the voters no alternative to a single list of 196 candidates. The list had been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf, who spent five years in French jails as a fellow prisoner of Ben Bella. One unpurged candidate, Mohammed Boudiaf, refused to serve because "the lists haven't been chosen in a democratic manner...
...Brutalities." Two days later the court reconvened to hear the case of doe-eyed Djamila Boupacha, 22, a non-Communist government typist accused of placing a bomb (which did not go off) in an Algiers cafe last September. Djamila herself has filed countercharges that police and paratroopers tortured her. "I was taken to Hussein Dey," she charged. "This was, I was told, for the 'second degree' treatment. I soon learned what it meant: electricity torture. Since the electrodes placed on my nipples would not hold, one of the torturers stuck them on with Scotch tape...
...court last week, Djamila appeared pale and drawn, but otherwise showed no outward signs of ordeal. Faced with a national uproar, the French prosecutor requested a delay "to gather further evidence." Her trial postponed, Djamila was led from the courtroom back to her cell -to wait...
Pardon to Death? Djamila Bouhired last week was in solitary confinement in the massively grim Barberousse fortress, overlooking the city of Algiers. All legal appeals have failed, and unless she is pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the 3½-year rebellion. Outraged at the dubious procedures of her trial, French newspapers from the Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have...
...French, traditionally, are reluctant to guillotine women. But the guillotine is not the only way a person can die. Said her lawyer: "If pardoned by President Coty, Djamila Bouhired is likely to be sent to a prison camp in a barren region bordering on the Sahara, and there will be little trouble finding another 'medical expert' to testify that her death was due to 'natural causes...