Sources in the Indian Foreign Ministry say that Yemen officials have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse, who is in the queue of death after being found guilty of murder.
Nimish Priya, which was sentenced to death To kill a local person, according to campaigners working to save him on 16 July, was executed on 16 July.
The nurse, which is from the southern Indian state of Kerala, denied the assassination of his former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi, which was discovered in a water tank in 2017.
The adjournment of his execution is only a temporary vengeance – the way he can be saved, if Mahdi’s family forgives him.
The Islamic judicial system of Yemen, known as Sharia, gives him a last hope – given to the victim’s family, or by paying blood money, receiving them an forgiveness. His relatives and supporters say they have raised $ 1M (£ 735,000) and have introduced Mahdi’s family.
“We are still trying to save him. But the family eventually has to agree to forgiveness,” Babu John, a member of the Sev Nimisha Priya International Action Council, told the BBC last week that the BBC had told the BBC after the date of his execution.
However, Mahdi’s family has clarified that they would settled for no less than killing him.
“Our attitude on reconciliation efforts is clear; we insist on implementing God’s law in QISAS [retaliation in kind]Nothing else, “his brother, Abdafatti Mahdi, told the BBC Arabic on Monday, before postponing the execution.
He said that his family was “suffering from a terrible and heinous but clear crime case not only from a brutal crime but also from a long, tedious litigation process.”
He said, “We are sorry to see efforts to distort the truth, especially those convicted from the Indian media to justify crime, and we clearly say that they aim to influence public opinion,” he said.
“Any controversy, whatever is due to this and though, can never justify a murder – let the body alone, mutate and hide.”
Sources in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday that its officials were in regular contact with the jail authorities and the prosecutor’s office in Yemen, where the civil war has taken place since 2011.
The government said that in recent times, the government searched for more time for Ms. Nimisha Priya’s family, so that he could reach a mutually agreed solution with the other side “, he said.
Nimish Priya left Kerala for Yemen in 2008 to work as a nurse. He was arrested in 2017 after searching for Mahdi’s body. The 34 -year -old is currently registered in the Central Jail in Yamani capital Sana.
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.
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.
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