Algerian Rebels
Sir,—The, claim that Djamila Bouhired should be treated as a “prisoner of ' war” is no doubt, as the French Embassy says, open to question. But talk about French soldiers “observing the laws and conventions of war” comes ill from the representative of a Government which (‘‘Manchester Guardian Weekly,” February 20) “tolerated the ‘slapping’ of prisoners by the parachutists in Algiers (a euphemism for the insertion of electrodes Into the most intimate parts of the bodies of men and women and running electric current through them).” And the Embassy is significantly silent about the allegation that this particular prisoner’s confession was extorted by torture, and that her lawyer was not allowed to plead for her. —Yours, etc., A. N. PRIOR. March 18, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 3
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