Nimisha Priya will be hanged in Yemen
Yemen is currently facing civil war and is under the control of Huti rebels. In that country, Nurse Nimisha Priya of Kerala district of India will be hanged on 16 July. Nimisha Priya has been convicted in the murder of Talal Mahdi, a citizen of Yemen and sentenced to death. Efforts to save Nimisha seem to be failing. In this country occupied by the huts, the death sentence is given in the same way, it is to shoot the guilty. By the way, in Yemen’s law, the convict can be punished by stoning, hanging in public and hanging a head.
Who is Nimisha Priya
Nimisha Priya, a resident of Palakkad district of Kerala, has been lodged in Yemen jail since 2017. Nimisha went to Yemen in 2011 after completing her nursing studies. His parents sent their daughter to Yemen, where they started working as a nurse. In 2015, he opened a medical clinic in Sana’aa, the capital of Yemen, in which Talal Abdo Mahdi helped him. In 2014 2014, her husband and younger daughter returned to India due to financial constraints. After that Nimisha’s life in Yemen became frightening.
Her colleague Talal Abdo Mahdi allegedly harassed her physically and mentally by describing herself as Nimisha’s husband through fake documents. He seized Nimisha’s passport, collected money, and threatened again and again. Fed up with this, in 2017, Nimisha tried to escape from Yemen after getting rid of Talal and gave him a high amount of medicine to make him unconscious, killing Talal. Nimisha was then arrested and accused of murder. In the year 2018, the court sentenced him to death.
How is the death sentence given in Yemen
The way of hanging in Yemen is frightening and creepy. In this, the guilty is laid on the ground, on the stream or on a blanket. The executioner then shoots on the back of a criminal lying with an automatic rifle. He executes the punishment by firing several rounds on the back. This mark puts a doctor on the back of the guilty, who suggests that there is a heart at this place and the executioner firing there for this reason.
How to death is given in Yemen
When the executioner fires on the back of the convict wrapped in a blanket, the convict makes the backbone of the back and makes his heart rash. In some cases in Yemen, the convict may also be punished for killing a whip before death sentence. Yemen is punished in both private and publicly.
In which cases are the death sentence
Death sentence for violent acts like murder, rape or terrorism in Yemen.
Death sentence in cases of Islamic or Hudud crimes such as adultery, sexual crime (gay activity), unnatural sex, prostitution, blasphemy and religion under Sharia law.
Kidnapping, violent robbery, drug trafficking, robbery, possibility of death punishment in destroying someone’s property.
Some military offenses (eg cowardice, abandonment), wrongly hanging false testimony, also punishment for espionage and treason.
In May 2024, Huti rebels -led court sentenced 44 people to death for collaborating with the Saudi alliance.
Human rights organizations around the world have been criticizing Yemen about such inhuman methods of punishment.
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