Jeanine Belkhodja

Jeanine Nadjia Belkhodja (2 April 1928 – 27 October 2013) was an Algerian doctor, communist and National Liberation Front (Algeria) activist during the Algerian War. She later became a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Mustapha Pacha hospital in Algiers.

Biography Jeanine Nadjia Belkhodja was born on 2 April 1928 in Algiers, French Algeria to a mixed family. Her mother was a Corsican French immigrant to Algeria and her father was from a Kabylie family that had converted to Catholicism. She was a practicing Catholic.

Belkhodja enrolled as one of the first medical students at the Faculty of Algiers, elected to student leadership.

Belkhodja completed her medical degree in 1955. She was arrested on 14 March 1957 by the "Green Berets." She was tortured at Villa Susini and was imprisoned in Barberouusse Prison. At her trial, Belkhodja was accused of making explosives, was given a 5-year suspended prison sentence and was exiled to France. She was also a member of the National Economic and Social Council (CNES).

Belkhodja died on 27 October 2013 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Her body was returned to Algeria and she was buried at the Sidi M'Hamed cemetery.