A senior Iran official last week had expressed willingness for working on the release of the nurse.Hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, the nurse was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni citizen in July 2017. She was handed capital punishment by a trial court in 2020 while Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council upheld the verdict in November 2023. Last week, India said it is closely following the case.External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the government is extending all possible help in the matter. “We are closely following the developments around the sentencing of Nimisha Priya. The government is extending all possible help in the matter,” he said on Friday.Meanwhile, the embassy of the conflict-ridden West Asian country in New Delhi said that the capital punishment handed to Nimisha Priya by a Yemeni court has not been ratified by President Rashad al-Alimi.Family, supporters cautiously optimisticNimisha’s family and supporters remain cautiously optimistic. Her lawyer, Subhash Chandran, expressed hope that the Indian government would extend support to secure her. “We know it’s a difficult case, only with government help can we hope for a positive outcome,” he said
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