Ali Haroun

Ali Haroun, whose full name is Mohamed Ali Haroun (in Arabic: علي هارون), born in 1927 in Bir Mourad Raïs, is a former nationalist activist of the FLN, Algerian politician and lawyer. After primary and secondary studies in Algiers, Ali Haroun continued his higher education in France, he obtained a law degree from Panthéon-Sorbonne, he passed the Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (CAPA) and then the State Doctorate. He joined the FLN at the beginning of the November 1954 uprising, he was tasked by Mohamed Boudiaf to support Abane Ramdane in launching the newspaper Résistance Algérienne3, which would later become El Moudjahid. He went to France at the end of 1957 and in March 1958, he was appointed by the FLN, political leader of the FLN2 French Federation and for the organization of the collection of the revolutionary tax from Algerian workers and he will lead the fight without being arrested until the end of the war. On the eve of independence, he became a member of the National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA)2 from 1960 to 1962, then elected deputy of Algiers to the constituent assembly2 from 1962 to 1963, he was among the 21 who called not to vote ...