Usamah Mohamad (Arabic: أسامة محمد; born c. 1980[1]) is a Sudanese web developer, blogger, and citizen journalist from Omdurman arrested during the protests of June 2012.
[2] On 22 June 2012, he and a friend used smartphones to document the heavy police presence in the neighborhood of Burri in Khartoum before a planned protest.
Though the friend was released seven hours later, Mohamad continued to be detained, and his relatives were informed that he was being held at Kober Prison.
In it, he stated his belief that "after twenty-three years of oppression and injustice, poverty, crimes that are all committed in the current regime, change now is inevitable.
"[3] Amnesty International designated Mohamad a prisoner of conscience, "held solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression".