Editing Zohra Drif (section)

==Arrest and imprisonment==

Zohra Drif was arrested on 22 September 1957, alongside [[Saadi Yacef|Yacef Saâdi]]. They were hidden in their refuge on the Rue Canton in the casbah of Algeria.

In August 1958, Drif was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour by the military tribunal of Algiers for terrorism, and was locked up in the women's section of the Barbarossa prison. After her initial imprisonment, she was transferred between various French prisons. She published a 20-page treatise, entitled ''The death of my brothers'' (French: ''la Mort de mes frères''), in 1960, while still in prison. Drif continued her legal studies while in prison during those 5 years, where she was obsessed with studying capital punishment. She was pardoned by Charles de Gaulle on the occasion of [[1962 Algerian independence referendum
|Algerian independence]] in 1962.