Fifty-seven-year-old Prema Kumari met her daughter Nimisha Priya, who is on a death row at the Central prison in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, after 12 years on Wednesday, April 24.
She visited her in jail along with Samuel Jerome Bhaskaran, member of the Save Nimisha Priya international council, who has been working in Yemen for over 24 years. They were accompanied by two officials of the Indian mission in Yemen. In a WhatsApp message shared with the council, Mr. Samuel termed their reunion as an ‘emotional’ moment. They were allowed to stay together for sometime as we went out and brought lunch for both of them, he said.
Thirty-four-year-old Nimisha, a nurse, remains imprisoned for the alleged murder of a Yemeni national in July 2017. The hurdles before Ms. Kumari’s repeated efforts to travel to Yemen were cleared after the Delhi High Court on her plea asked the Centre in December last to relax its 2017 notification, which barred Indian passport holders from travelling to Yemen.
