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 folks 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 courtroom 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 beneath the management of Iran-backed Houthis.
“Now we have been intently following the matter since then. Now we have been in common contact with native authorities and her relations and rendered all attainable help,” a authorities supply informed PTI.
“We proceed to intently 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.
Now we have been intently following the matter since then. Now we have been in common contact with native authorities and her relations and rendered all attainable help.
There are particular complicacies within the case because the Indian facet has no formal contacts with the Houthi rebels. Priya’s mother Premakumari travelled to Yemen final yr as a part of efforts to safe her launch.
The Indian facet had even explored the choice of securing Priya’s launch by way of “diyat” or paying “blood cash”. However that additionally bumped into some issues, it’s learnt.
