Providing help to nurse on death row in Yemen: Govt tells House

Yemen’s Supreme Court pronounced death sentence to an Indian nurse on charges of murdering a Yemeni national and the case is currently with the President of the ruling dispensation of Sana’a, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The government of India is providing all possible assistance in the case including seeking consular access to the nurse, Nimishapriya, in jail and providing a lawyer to represent her case, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh said.

“The Supreme Court of Yemen in Sana’a had pronounced death sentence to Nimishapriya, an Indian nurse on the charges of murdering a Yemeni national,” he said.