Akram Al Walidi is a journalist and human rights defender who spent eight years detained and subjected to torture and other ill-treatment by the Huthi de facto authorities. He was sentenced to death in April 2020, along with three other journalists. After spending three years on death row, they were all released in April 2023 as part of a prisoner exchange deal between the Huthi de facto authorities and internationally recognized government of Yemen. At around 3am on 9 June 2015, while bombs