Team News Riveting
Kochi, July 15
The execution of Nimisha Priya, Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen, has been postponed by Yemeni authorities.
The execution was scheduled for Wednesday. The development is seen as a major diplomatic victory as Government of India has intensified the efforts to save Nimisha.
Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, has been found guilty of murdering a Yemeni citizen in July, 2017.
Sources said after a high-level meeting, the Yemini authorities have postponed the execution scheduled for July 16. In 2020, a Yemeni court handed her the death sentence and the country’s Supreme Judicial Council dismissed her appeal in November 2023.
The 38-year-old nurse is presently lodged in a jail in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital city that is under the control of Iran-backed Houthis.
The Government of India sources confirmed that the authorities in Yemen have officially postponed the execution. “In the case of Ms. Nimisha Priya, it has been learnt that the local authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution scheduled for July 16, 2025,” said sources.
“Government of India, which has since the beginning of the case been rendering all possible assistance in the matter, has made concerted efforts in recent days to seek more time for the family of Ms. Nimishapriya to reach a mutually agreeable solution with the other party,” sources added.
“Despite the sensitivities involved, Indian officials have been in regular touch with the local jail authorities and the prosecutor’s office, leading to securing this postponement,” sources further said
