Weeks after Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya's death sentence was suspended, her 13-year-old daughter Mishel appealed to the Yemeni authorities to release her mother. Nimisha Priya has been imprisoned in Yemen for several years after being convicted of murdering Talal Abdo Mehdi.
Mishel, who was accompanied by her father Tomy Thomas, said, "Please help bring my mother home. I badly want to see her. I miss you mummy.” Tomy thanked the Houthi government for suspending her sentence and urged the authorities to help bring his to their hometown.
VIDEO | Sanna City, Yemen: 13-year-old Mishel (centre), the daughter of imprisoned Indian Nurse Nimisha Priya, reaches Yemen to join Global Peace Initiative founder and evangelist Dr K.A. Paul to appeal to the Yemeni government for the release of her mother, who has been… pic.twitter.com/gn5ZTmm27p
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In the video, KA Paul, the founder of US-based Global Peace Initiative, thanks Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi and Yemeni President Rashad Mohammad Al-Alimi for expediting Nimisha's release. He said Nimisha has become "the daughter of India" and "the symbol of peace".
Pointing out that "love is more powerful than hatred", Paul offered to mediate for lasting peace in Yemen and invited both the Yemeni leader to a global peace summit in New York on September 21.
Nimisha, who arrived in Yemen in 2011, established a clinic in Sana'a in 2015 under Talal's sponsorship. The previous year, her husband and daughter returned to India. Talal later allegedly forged marriage documents to establish that they are husband and wife. He then allegedly took her passport, extorted money from her and abused her physically and mentally.
Nimisha, who was desperate to escape, drugged Talal to get her passport back but the he died of overdose. She was later nabbed by Yemeni authorities from the Saudi Arabia border.
In 2020, Nimisha was sentenced to death by a trial court while her appeals were rejected by upper courts. The Supreme Judicial Council of Yemen upheld the death sentence in 2023 following which the Yemeni President approved the verdict last year. However, her execution scheduled for July 16 was suspended with the help of friendly governments, according the Ministry of External Affairs.
Nimisha's family is making efforts to pay blood money to Talal's kin but they have rejected the offer and have been insisting on her execution.
