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- 01In the 1978 Aix-en-Provence rape trial, Halimi argued publicly that French law's leniency for rapists amounted to state endorsement of sexual violence.
- 02She co-founded 'Choisir' with Simone de Beauvoir in 1971 to defend women prosecuted for illegal abortions.
- 03The Aix verdict — guilty with significant sentences — directly preceded France's 1980 rape law reform, the first to define rape as a crime against the person, not public morals.