Period of Imprisonment
Very little details are known about her time during her imprisonment but what is known is that she was subject to inhumane treatment and torture. However the torture was not limited to her and it is a confirmed fact (by sources related to Djamila Bouhired) that her brothers were too subject to torture, one of them having been tortured in front of their very mother.
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