An Indian nurse who is in the line of death in war -torn Yemen, is executed on 16 July, the campaigners working to save it have been told to the BBC.
Nimish Priya was sentenced to death To kill a local person – his former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi – whose chopped body was discovered in a water tank in 2017.
The way he can be saved is that Mahdi’s family forgives him. His relatives and supporters have introduced $ 1M (£ 735,000) diya, or blood money to pay to Mahdi’s family.
“We are still waiting for his forgiveness or any other demands,” a member of the Sev Nimish Priya Council told the BBC.
Council’s social worker and member Babu John said, “The date of prosecution has been conveyed to the jail authorities by the Director General of Prosecution. We are still trying to save him. But the family finally has to agree to forgiveness.”
A Foreign Ministry official of India told the BBC that they were still trying to confirm the details.
In 2008, Nimisha Priya left the southern Indian state of Kerala to work as a nurse for Yemen.
He was arrested in 2017 after searching for Mahdi’s body. The 34 -year -old is currently recorded in Sanaa Central Jail in Yemen’s capital.
He was accused of killing Mahdi, which he was cut off by giving him a “sedative overdose” and allegedly cutting his body.
Nimisha denied the allegations. In court, his lawyer argued that Mahdi physically tortured him, snatched all his money, seized his passport and even threatened him with guns.
He said that he had tried to anastize Mahdi just to recover his passport, but that the dose had increased by mistake.
In 2020, he was sentenced to death by a local court. His family challenged the verdict in Yemen’s Supreme Court, but his appeal was rejected in 2023.
In early January, Mahadi al-Mashat, president of the Supreme Political Council of the rebel Hauthis, approved his execution.
The Islamic judicial system of Yemen, known as Sharia, gives him a last ray of hope – receiving an forgiveness by paying them blood money from the victim’s family.
Nimisha’s mother, a poor domestic assistant from Kerala, has been in Yemen in a final attempt to save her from April 2024.
He has nominated Yemen-based social activist Samuel Jerom to interact with Mahdi’s family.
A lobby group named Sev Nimisha Priya International Action Council has raised funds by crowdfunding for this purpose and Mr. Jerom has said that Mahdi’s family has been offered $ 1M.
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