Media rights groups on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to free four journalists sentenced to death for “espionage” in the war-torn country. The four, Abdul Khaleq Amran, Tawfiq al-Mansouri, Harith Hamid, and Akram al-Walidi were arrested in June 2015 in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa. The Iran-backed Houthis seized Sanaa from the internationally recognised government in 2014, sparking a civil war that has devastated the already impoverished country. In April 2020, a Houthi court sentenced the four journalists to death on charges of “treason and spying for foreign states”, a verdict condem…