India is engaged in efforts to forestall the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse convicted in a homicide case in Yemen whose dying sentence is ready to be carried out on July 16, information company PTI mentioned quoting individuals accustomed to the matter.
Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, was discovered responsible of murdering a Yemeni man Talal Abdo Mehdi in July 2017. He was her enterprise associate.
Priya and Mehdi ran a clinic collectively in Yemen’s capital metropolis, Sanaa.
Awarded dying sentence in 2020
In 2020, a Yemeni court docket handed her the dying sentence, and the nation’s Supreme Judicial Council dismissed her attraction in November 2023.
The 38-year-old nurse is presently lodged in a jail in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital metropolis that’s underneath the management of Iran-backed Houthis.
“We now have been carefully following the matter since then. We now have been in common contact with native authorities and her members of the family and rendered all potential help,” a authorities supply advised PTI.
“We proceed to carefully comply with the matter,” it mentioned.
New Delhi is engaged in efforts to forestall the execution that has been scheduled for July 16, the supply mentioned.
We now have been carefully following the matter since then. We now have been in common contact with native authorities and her members of the family and rendered all potential help.
There are particular complicacies within the case because the Indian aspect has no formal contacts with the Houthi rebels. Priya’s mom Premakumari travelled to Yemen final yr as a part of efforts to safe her launch.
The Indian aspect had even explored the choice of securing Priya’s launch by “diyat” or paying “blood cash”. However that additionally bumped into some issues, it’s learnt.
