A prominent Sudanese women's campaigner has been honored with a human rights prize.
She was also charged with wearing trousers in 2002 and was kidnapped from her home and kept incommunicado by security officers in January of this year before being freed.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
A famous Sudanese women's rights activist has won a global human rights award after being arrested earlier this year in a crackdown following the October 2021 coup.
Amira Osman Hamed is one of this year's Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders in Danger recipients, according to the organization's announcement on Friday.
For two decades, the activist and engineer, now in her 40s, has fought for Sudanese women's rights.
According to the awards organizer, she has been a victim of past human rights breaches and was jailed and charged in 2013 after refusing to wear a headscarf, which Muslim women wear to cover their hair.
She was also charged with wearing trousers in 2002 and was kidnapped from her home and kept incommunicado by security officers in January of this year before being freed.
Frontline Defenders said in a statement announcing the winners, "Despite this, [she] never wavered in her purpose and actively participated in peaceful demonstrations."
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe was also declared a winner for its efforts to improve rural teachers' wages and working conditions.
Three additional human rights defenders from Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mexico were also declared winners by the organization.
