Relatives of an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen are racing against time to commute her death sentence, with her execution set for Wednesday, in a case that has gripped India’s media.

Nimisha Priya was sentenced to death for the murder of her former business partner, a Yemeni national, whose body was discovered in a water tank in 2017.

She was given the death penalty by a court in capital Sanaa in 2020 and her family has been fighting for her release since, complicated by the lack of formal ties between New Delhi and the Houthis, who have controlled the city since the country’s civil war broke out in 2014.

With her execution looming, India’s media has devoted significant coverage to the case and human rights groups have called on the Houthis not to carry it out.

Amnesty International on Monday urged the Houthis to “immediate establish a moratorium on all executions and commute (Priya’s) and all existing death sentences as first steps.”