Salih Mahmoud Osman

Salih Mahmoud Osman (Arabic: صالح محمود عثمان, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Maḥmūd ʻUthmān; born 1957 in Darfur) is a Sudanese human rights lawyer.

Osman is well known for having provided free legal representation to hundreds of victims of ethnic violence (human rights activist) in Sudan over more than two decades.

He is from the Jebel Mara area in central Darfur, western Sudan.

Also in 2007 the European Parliament voted unanimously to award him the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

He was detained three times for his courageous advocacy in defense of human rights, but was never charged with any offense.