Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Dr. John Brittas has addressed a letter to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, making it clear that he should personally intervene in order to avert the execution of an Indian nurse, Nimisha Priya, in Yemen. Brittas has asked Jaishankar to contact the top of the society in Yemen to rescue Priya, scheduled to be executed on the 16th of July 2025.
Britas, in a letter dated Wednesday, had requested diplomatic intervention to negotiate with the family of the killed Yemeni male, the leaders of his tribe, and other interested parties in order to find a pardon in the form of diya (blood money), as the Yemeni law allowed. In an appeal, he added, “I am making a last-minute, desperate plea to your good self, to intervene personally at the highest levels with the authorities in the Republic of Yemen, to stop the execution that is scheduled to take place July 16, 2025, and to pursue and broker-negotiations with family of the deceased, tribal leaders, and local stakeholders to allow a pardon through Diya; all through diplomatic channels and local interlocutors.”
The legal remedy is called Diya, where a guilty person escapes a death sentence by having to pay a fee to the family of the victim. Brittas also insisted that this financial burden would not have to be on the Indian government because the entire amount of blood money is offered to be paid by the organisation, Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council. He made it clear that the Ministry of External Affairs’ support was only necessary to facilitate and help in the negotiations.
Yemen Drugs, Nimisha Priya, a native of Palakkad, Kerala, left in 2011 to work as a nurse in Yemen. She faced murder charges in 2017, over the death of her Yemeni partner, Talal Abdo Mahdi, whom she accused of beating her up and taking away her passport so that she would not go back to India. Priya claims to have tried to drug him in an attempt to be able to get out of his captivity, but she got the wrong dose, which caused him to die. In 2020, she was sentenced to death.
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