Public honoring of Algerian hero Jamilah Bu7hered, a pioneer woman of the Arab struggle against French colonialism

Al Mayadeen TV honored during a public ceremony organised the day before yesterday at the UNESCO Palace the renowned Algerian heroin, Jamilah Bu7hred, amidst a large crowd including MPs and Ministers, political and cultural public figures in addition to writers and artists from various Arab countries who offered poems and speeches in recognition of Bu7hered’s well recognised contribution to Algerian struggle.
Bu7hred is one of the key women figures who contributed to Algeria’s liberation from the French colonizer. She joined the National Liberation Front in the early fifties and participated in a number of heroic acts making her on the top wanted list of the French colonizer.  She was captured in 1957 after being hit by gunshots and was sentenced to death.  However, her death sentence was commuted and she was subsequently sent to France in 1960 in view of the international solidarity support she received.  She was finally released in 1962 after the declaration of Algeria’s independence and became the president of the Algerian Women’s Union.  Hezbollah’s Women Committees also honored Bu7hered in Mllita during her visit to the Mllita resistance museum yesterday.
Source: Al-Safir, Al-Nahar 5 December 2013