Gisele Halimi – fighting for the oppressed

Gisele Halimi, a Tunisian-born feminist MP and lawyer who fought to decriminalise abortion in France and spent her life trailblazing for women’s and other human rights, has died aged 93. She sought justice for torture victims in Tunisia and Algeria, under French control when she started practising law, strengthened French laws against rape and campaigned for the end of the death penalty.  When she was born on 27 July 1927 4.30pm La Goulette, Tunisia, into a poor, conservative Jewish f