US EditionNimisha Priya Case: Centre Tells SC It ‘Wants This Woman to Come Back Safely’ From Death Row in Yemen
YEMEN, JUL 17 – The victim's family rejects financial compensation and demands execution under Islamic retributive justice despite a $1 million humanitarian offer, Yemen postponed the scheduled July 16 execution.
- Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, convicted in 2017 for murdering a Yemeni national, faced execution scheduled for July 16, 2025, in Yemen.
- The Yemeni Supreme Judicial Council dismissed Priya's final appeal in November 2023, and the victim's family insisted on capital punishment without accepting any settlement.
- India conducted sustained diplomatic efforts, including legal assistance, consular access, exploring blood money, and Priya’s mother traveling to Yemen, leading to the execution's postponement on July 16, 2025.
- MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the government offered all possible aid while Attorney General R Venkataramani noted India had reached the limit of its efforts to prevent the execution.
- The postponement highlights ongoing negotiation challenges, with calls for mercy contrasted by the victim's family’s demand for retribution, leaving Priya's fate uncertain amid appeals for reconciliation.
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Execution of Indian nurse in Yemen stayed, efforts on: Centre to SC
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday, July 18, informed the Supreme Court that efforts were on and the government was trying everything possible to ensure Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, on death row for murder in Yemen, came out safely. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was informed that Priya’s execution, scheduled on Wednesday, July 16, had been stayed. The counsel appearing for petitioner organisation “Save Nimisha Priya – Internation…
Nimisha Priya execution: Supreme Court asks Centre to consider merits of group working to save nurse for travel to Yemen
Attorney-General R. Venkataramani expressed the government’s concern to bring Nimisha Priya back home safely. “All the government can do is being done,” he said
Nimisha Priya case: Centre tells SC it ‘wants this woman to come back safely’ from death row in Yemen
The Ministry of External Affairs is working to support Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, by appointing a lawyer to assist her family with legal processes and exploring options for clemency under Sharia law.
Nimisha Priya case: In constant touch with Yemeni authorities, offering all possible help, says MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday said it has been in “constant touch with local authorities” in Yemen and is providing “all possible assistance” in the case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on death row in Sana’a. The statement comes a day after Yemeni authorities postponed her execution following sustained diplomatic efforts by India. In a press briefing on Wednesday, the MEA confirmed that the Indian government had been “in…
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