Under Sharia law, the only way to stop the execution now is securing a pardon from the victim’s family. Nimisha Priya’s family and supporters have paid ‘diyah’, or blood money, to the victim’s family and negotiations are on.

Family members of an Indian nurse who is on death row in war-torn Yemen say they are pinning their hopes on a last-ditch effort to save her. Nimisha Priya, 34, was sentenced to death for the murder of a local man - her former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi - whose chopped-up body was discovered in a water tank in 2017.

NEW DELHI, India, Jan 4: Family members of an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen are pinning their hopes on a final effort to save her life.

India is making urgent efforts to save Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse sentenced to death in Yemen for the alleged murder of a Yemeni national.

The 36-year-old nurse from Palakkad in Kerala is being held in a jail in Sana’a, currently under the control of Iran-backed Houthi rebels