Indian Nurse Nimisha Priya Sentenced to Death in Yemen; Execution Date Reportedly July 16

The 37-year-old nurse Nimisha Priya, who is of Kerala and is on a death row in Yemen, will be executed on July 16 in the country, the media reports claimed on Tuesday.

Priya has been given a death sentence following a conviction of killing a Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mehdi. The two were in business together to establish a clinic since it is a foreign national requirement in Yemen. Talal had taken away the passport of Priya and it is said that this is the reason priya sedated him to get her passport back. He was however killed because of an overdose of drugs.

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After Talal was killed, Priya and one of her two Yemeni colleagues, Hanan are reported to have butchered and thrown the body away in a water cistern.

Baskaran, who has been holding talks with Yemen authorities and family of Talal confirmed that a letter by the public prosecutor had been dispatched to the jail authorities to execute her on July 16. He followed this by saying that although the date has been set, there is always a space of intervention and that even the Indian government can intervene in order to attempt to save her life.

Who Is Nimisha Priya?

Priya, a 23-year-old woman born and brought up in the Palakkad district of Kerala, went to work in Yemen in 2011, after finishing her nursing training course. She had made the move to aid her parents who earn their daily wage, reports said.

First, she toiled day and night in a number of various hospitals in Yemen and finally made a decision to launch her own clinic.

She met Talal Abdo Mahdi in 2014 who told her he would support her in starting her clinic in Yemen, a dream she had longed.

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The Yemeni business law asks a foreigner to enter into a business with someone locally to start up a business in the Middle East state. They collaborated and struck a deal to open the clinic and it was done according to the law.

She later established her clinic in Sanaa in 2015 with Mahdi but soon the differences emerged between them. She had four abuse and torture cases with Mahdi. He also allegedly even took her passport so that she did not leave Yemen.

She filed a police complaint against Mahdi where he was arrested in 2016. Nevertheless, he was release later, as local media outlets report.

The rivalry became deadly as the two got involved in an argument in 2017. She was so desperate to be able to get her passport back and go back to India that she even turned to a local jail warden who advised her to use sedatives to paralyze Mahdi.

She listened to the suggestion and injected him with sedatives in her bid to get back her passport held by him. But he was overdosed, thus he died causing her she must be arrested and convicted in the case.

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