case.He notes, for instance, stories of past awardees, such as Zbigniew Bujak and Adam Michnik, leaders of a Polish underground movement being persecuted by secret police, and Amilcar Mendez Urizar, a Guatemalan activist whose work earned him death threats from powerful people.The award will be presented to Omran by the widow of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, for whom the award is named,