Salima Ghezali
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Salima Ghezali is an Algerian Journalist-Writer, born in 1958 in Bouira in Kabylie.
A founding member of Women in Europe and the Maghreb, president of the association for the advancement of women, editor of the women's magazine NYSSA, which she founded, and editor of the French weekly La Nation (Algeria), Salima Ghezali is an activist of women's rights and human rights and democracy in Algeria.
Its position for Freedom of speech to expose the crossfire of the Algerian authorities and Islamism extremists, especially during the Algerian Civil War in which it advocates a peaceful and democratic solution.
In 1996, when his newspaper "The Nation" was banned, Salima Ghezali wrote: "We must remember the principles that form the foundations of human society and exercising vigilance. This is the best way to ensure that civilization triumph of barbarism.
In 1997, Salima Ghezali is the winner of the Sakharov Prize.
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