Nurse Nimisha Priya to be executed on July 16, Indian govt is 'monitoring' the matter

Human rights activist Samuel Jerome has said authorities have issued the letter of execution and she has been informed about the date.

Jerome is a part of the Save Nimisha Priya action council and has been involved in negotiations with Yemeni officials and the victim’s family.

He said if the victim's family forgive her and accepts the blood money, then the nurse could be saved.

“If the family forgive, blood money will be paid. The negotiations were going on but they haven’t yet accepted the offer to forgive,” Jerome told India Today.

He confirmed that all legal options to save the nurse have been exhausted.

According to reports, the victim's family has been offered USD one million as compensation.

Indian government's reaction

Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs told NDTV that they have been closely following the matter since then and have been in regular touch with local authorities and her family members, and have rendered all possible assistance.

Who is Nimisha Priya?

Nimisha Priya, who hails from Kerala, was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni national in 2017.

She moved to Yemen in 2008 to support her parents. After working in several hospitals, she eventually opened her clinic. She came in contact with Talal Abdo Mahdi in 2014 for her clinic, as rules in Yemen required partnership with a local to start a business.

She then had a fallout with Mahdi, and she filed a complaint against him after which he was arrested in 2016, but he was later released from jail and allegedly continued to threaten her.

Nimisha's family claimed that she had allegedly injected Mahdi with sedatives to retrieve her confiscated passport. However, an overdose led to his death. She was arrested while attempting to flee the country and was convicted of murder in 2018.

She is currently lodged at a prison in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The capital city is currently under the control of Iran-backed Houthis.

The Indian-origin nurse's family had been fighting for her release since then and had even approached Yemen's Supreme Court against the trial court order.