Sudanese activist receives Human Rights Award.

Sudanese activist Amira Osman Hamed has won the Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, the organization announced on Friday. The NGO Front Line Defenders has awarded human rights defenders since 2005.

Who is Amira Osman Hamed

Hamed, a 40-year-old engineer and longtime activist for women's rights in Sudan, was first arrested in 2002 for wearing pants and again in 2013 for refusing to cover her hair.

At the time, a law prohibited women in Sudan from uncovering their hair or wearing pants in public.

That law, which “turns Sudanese women from victims into criminals,” according to Hamed, was finally repealed in 2019 after the army removed President Omar al-Bashir from office.

More recently, activist Hamed was arrested in January this year, before being released a week later, for speaking out against the military regime after General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane's coup in October 2021.

Hamed's relatives said in late January that "30 armed and masked men" invaded his home in Khartoum in the middle of the night "and took her to an unknown destination".

Amira Osmane Hamed “never strayed from her mission and continued to actively participate in peaceful demonstrations,” the NGO Front Line Defenders said in a statement, which awarded the activist.

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