Samuel Jerome said that negotiations were going on but there has been no response from the family of the Yemeni citizen. No agreement could be reached on blood money either.

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• Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has been sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni national in Yemen, the execution date for which is set for July 16.
• Nimisha had partnered with local citizen Talal Abdo Mahdi to open a clinic in Yemen, but later a dispute arose between them.
• Nimisha injected Talal with sedatives to get her passport back. He died due to overdose.

Nimisha Priya, a citizen of Palakkad in Kerala and a nurse by profession, will be executed in Yemen on July 16. According to human rights activist Samuel Jerome, Priya is in jail on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen. Jerome has the power of attorney of Nimisha Priya's mother Prema Kumari. Jerome said that the jail authorities have informed him of the date of hanging. Jerome received a call from the jail chairman in Yemen informing him that the death order has been passed. Nimisha Priya has also been officially informed about this. 

Options are still open 

Samuel Jerome said that talks were going on but there has been no response from the Yemeni citizen's family. There was no agreement on blood money either. One million dollars were offered to the Yemeni citizen's family and money is also being raised with the help of a sponsor. If sources are to be believed, options are still open and the Indian government can intervene in the matter to save his life. 

Who is Nimisha? 

Nimisha Priya, who hails from Kerala, went to Yemen in 2011 after completing her nursing training course. It is being told that she went there with the intention of giving a good life to her parents. Her parents were daily wage laborers. Initially, she worked day and night in many hospitals in Yemen. After this, she decided to open her own clinic. She came in contact with Talal Abdo Mahdi in 2014. Talal promised Nimisha to help her in starting a clinic in Yemen. Nimisha felt that now her dream could come true. 

what is the whole matter 

Under the business laws in Yemen, any person who is not a citizen of that country has to partner with a local person to start a business in the country. Nimisha entered into a partnership to open a clinic as per the laws and agreed to the terms. Nimisha started her clinic with Mahdi in the year 2015. But soon differences arose between them. She accused Mahdi of abuse and torture. It is being told that Mahdi also took away her passport so that she could not go out of Yemen. 

Nimisha needed a passport 

Nimisha filed a police complaint against Mahdi and he was arrested in 2016. But according to some reports, he was released a few days later. The controversy took a new turn in 2017. Desperate to get her passport back and return to India, Nimisha sought the help of a local jail warden, who suggested using sedatives to incapacitate Mahdi. 

died of overdose 

Following the warden's suggestion, Nimisha injected him with sedatives in an attempt to take her passport from him. He died of an overdose, due to which Nimisha was arrested and convicted in the case. According to a media report, Nimisha's mother Prema Kumari had reached Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, earlier this year. She was staying there to negotiate the abolition of death penalty and blood money with the victim's family.