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Indian nurse Nimisha Priya's execution in Yemen postponed
The Indian government has struggled to negotiate with the Iranian-backed Houthi authorities in Sanaa regarding Nimisha Priya's case. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Takuya Imai)
KIRAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI -- An Indian woman on death row in Yemen in a murder case has received temporary relief as her execution scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed amid efforts by the Indian government, religious scholars and campaigners to save her life.
Nimisha Priya, 37, a nurse from the Indian state of Kerala who first moved to Yemen in 2008, was found guilty of the 2017 murder of her former Yemeni business partner Talat Abdo Mahdi -- with whom she was running a clinic there. According to Indian media reports, her professional relationship with Mahdi became exploitative, and she allegedly attempted to sedate him in order to retrieve her passport that he had confiscated, resulting in his death due to an overdose.
