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Sudanese women's activist Amira Osman Hamed wins human rights prize

Interviewed in Khartoum in September 2013, Hamed said she was prepared to be flogged to defend the right to leave her hair uncovered in defiance of a "Taliban"-like law. AFP - ASHRAF SHAZLY

Sudanese activist and engineer Amira Osman Hamed has won a Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. She was first charged in 2002 for daring to wear trousers, and was detained and threatened with flogging in 2013 for refusing to wear a headscarf.

Osman Hamed, now in her forties, has been advocating for Sudanese women for two decades, and was detained this year in a crackdown following the country's latest coup.

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