SUZANNE ZAKINE STILL HELD IN PRISON BY BOUMEDIENNE
In a dispatch from Algiers dated June 14, Agence France Presse reported it had learned from reliable sources that the three European women arrested there on May 9 have_ “been | charged with "associating with criminals.
"One of them,. “Mlle Marguerite Lourdin, who was released May 24, was arrested again three days ago and, together with Mme Suzanne gzakine and Mlle Claudia Bobillier, is being held in the El Harrach prison. In response to questioning about it, Mlle Bobillier's attorney, M. Yves. Jouffa, of the Paris bar,- would only say that he had received permission to talk with his client, that he had been able to see her Monday afternoon and that it did not involve the ordinary criminal laws."
The truth is that Colonel Boumedienne is proceeding in this case as he does with all political prisoners. They were arrested secretly and held without charges until the news appeared in the Paris press.
The main victim is Suzanne Zakine, the widow of a well-known Trotskyist leader who died in Algiers last November from a heart condition. [See World Outlook June 17.]
It is not known as yet whether these political prisoners like the others held by Boumedienne have been tortured.
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