Louisa hanoune biography
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Trade unionists and activists are mobilising for an international day of action on 20 June in solidarity with Louisa Hanoune, General Secretary of the radical left Workers’ Party who was detained by a military court in Algeria on 9 May. Louisa is one of increasing numbers of activists to face detention and jail in recent weeks, as the Algerian regime has attempted to use repression against organisers and supporters of the mass popular protests and strikes which have gripped the country since February this year.
In a statement the organisers of the Free Louisa Hanoune campaign said:
Louisa Hanoune has been known in the world and for years for her stance and her uncompromising kamp in defence of democracy, freedoms, women&#;s rights and always on the side of the people and the oppressed”
Louisa is well-known for her campaigns against the Family Code, which discriminates against Algerian women, treating them essentially as minors, and for lika recognition of
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Louisa Hanoune
Algerian politician
Louisa Hanoune (Arabic: لويزة حنون; born 7 April ) is the head of Algeria's Workers' Party (Parti des Travailleurs, PT). In , she became the first woman to run for President of Algeria. Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several times prior to the legalization of political parties in She was jailed soon after she joined the Trotskyist Social Workers Organisation, an illegal party, in and again after the October Riots, which brought about the end of the National Liberation Front's (FLN) single-party rule. During Algeria's civil war of the s, Hanoune was one of the few opposition voices in parliament, and, despite her party's laicist values, a strong opponent of the government's "eradication" policy toward Islamists. In January , she signed the Sant'Egidio Platform together with representatives of other opposition parties, notably the Islamic Salvation Front, the radical Islamist party whose dissolution by military decree brought about th
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Hannoun, Louisa (–)
Algerian politician, political activist, and feminist Louisa Hannoun (Luiza Hanoune, Hanoun, Hannun) came to prominence with the political opening allowed by the Algerian government's ruling party, the Front de Libér-ation Nationale (FLN; National Liberation Front), in the late s. In she became the first female candidate for president in the Arab world. Head of the Trotskyite Parti des Travailleurs (PT; Workers' Party), she is respected by many in Algeria and the world for her efforts to moderate the military's harsh response to the Islamist wins at the polls in , and to push for a truly multiparty democratic political process to include all factions and allow freedom of opinion and expression.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Hannoun was born in in the douar (a small village of related families, common in North Africa) of Irdjana, near the town of Chefka, in the mountainous northeastern Kabyle region of Algeria. The Kabyle is an ethnically distinct, Tamazight (Berber lang