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Louisa Hanoune

Louisa (or Louiza) Hanoune is head of Algeria's Parti des Travailleurs (PT), or Workers' Party. In 2004, she became the first woman to run for president of that country.

Hanoune was imprisoned by the government several times prior to the legalization of political parties in 1988.

During Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990s, Hanoune was one of the few opposition voices in parliament, and a strong opponent of the government's "eradication" policy toward islamists.

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