Indian nurse faces execution in Yemen: Nimisha Priya to be hanged on July 16, say reports
Priya, 37, originally from Kerala's Palakkad district, was sentenced to death for the 2017 murder of Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mehdi, who reportedly withheld her passport.
According to court findings, Priya allegedly sedated Talal in an attempt to retrieve the document, but the dosage proved fatal.
She and a Yemeni colleague, Hanan, then dismembered the body and disposed of it in a water tank, media reports said.
Case under Houthi jurisdiction
News agency PTI reported that the Yemeni embassy had earlier clarified the case has been handled primarily by the Houthi militia, which controls Sana'a, where Priya is currently imprisoned.
Priya was found guilty by a trial court in 2017. Her death sentence was upheld in 2024 by Yemen's Supreme Judicial Council, and later approved by President Rashad al-Alimi.
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