Afrah Nasser is a Yemeni-Swedish independent journalist, researcher, blogger and human rights defender who has been active since the mid-2000s, now living in exile in Sweden. Nasser began her journalistic work around 2004 (contributing to Yemen Times) and was a reporter for Yemen Observer from about 2008. She became more prominent during the 2011 uprising in Yemen through blogging about human rights violations and gender issues, eventually fleeing the country after receiving death threats. In June 2011, while in Sweden for a seminar, she formally applied for political asylum citing death threats she had received via Facebook messages, including “We know where your house is. We will come and kill you” and “We know you are outside the country and we are waiting for you to come back and we will show you a lesson for all the disrespectful words you say about the president.” These threats followed her active blogging and participation in protests, and targeted her for her outspoken criticism of corruption, lack of freedom of expression and human rights violations. She continues to receive harassment, including sexist and hateful messages, especially on social media, and remains at risk as a prominent woman human rights defender reporting on Yemen. From Sweden she has carried on writing and commenting on political affairs, humanitarian law, women’s rights and press freedom in Yemen, including through her blog “Sana’a Review” (of which she is founding editor), and regular contributions to international outlets such as Al-Jazeera, CNN, Al-Monitor, Atlantic Council, Carnegie Endowment, BBC, among others. Nasser has been recognised with multiple awards : the Dawit Isaak Prize in 2014, the Pennskaft Prize in 2016, and the 2017 International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.