She was one of the trio of FLN female bombers depicted in the 1966 film The Battle of Algiers.
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At the time a French lawyer named Jacques Vergès, sympathetic to the plight of Algerians, heard of her case and decided to represent her.
Djamila Bouhired and Djamila Boupacha - Algerian revolutionaries and nationalists who opposed French colonial rule of Algeria in the 1960s.