Salima Ghezali
Salima Ghezali (* 1958 near Algiers ) is an Algerian journalist and human rights activist.
Ghezali was born near Algiers in 1958 . She studied French literature and philosophy. Between 1983 and 1990 she taught as a teacher at the high school in Khemis El Khechna , a suburb of Algiers in the Boumerdes province . In the 1980s she began to get involved in the Algerian women's movement. She was a founding member of "Women of Europe and the Maghreb" and acted as editor-in-chief of the women's magazine NYSSA, which she founded . In the course of time, she expanded her activities and now, in addition to women's rights, also campaigned for the implementation of human rights and democracy in Algeria. From 1994 Ghezali was the editor of the weekly La Nation . Her articles deal with state censorship and a peaceful end to the Algerian civil war . This brought them into the focus of government agencies as well as Islamist extremists. Contributions to the human rights situation in Algeria, including the massacre in Serkadji prison , in the French newspaper Le Monde diplomatique prompted the Algerian authorities to order the closure of Ghezali's magazine in 1996.
In March 1996 she was named "International Journalist of the Year" by the US magazine World Press Review in New York City . In 1997 Ghezali received the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and the Olof Palme Prize for her commitment . In 1999 she was awarded the Theodor Haecker Prize by the city of Esslingen am Neckar . La Nation has been published again since 2002 .
Ghezali is a member of the Board of Directors of the Euromediterranean Foundation for the Support of Human Rights Defenders. She has two daughters.
Web links
- 1988-2008 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (Brochure, 2008; PDF; 1.9 MB)
- Salima Ghezali - brave, critical, blunt , Reporters Without Borders , Circular No. 16, April 1997
Individual evidence
- ^ Dossier: "L'Algérie et les droits humains" - Le massacre de Serkadji , Le Monde diplomatique, March 1996
- ^ Awarding of the Theodor Haecker Prize to Salima Ghezali , website of the city of Esslingen am Neckar
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghezali, Salima |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian journalist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Algiers |