THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A Yemen court on Monday dismissed the appeal of Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya, 33, against a death sentence awarded to her for the murder of a Yemeni national in 2017.
Hailing from Palakkad, Nimisha a nurse by profession, reached Yemen in 2012 with her husband. In 2015, with the help of Yemeni national Talal Mahdi, she set up a clinic and by the time her husband and child had returned home. Soon, differences cropped up between her and Talal and she accused him of torturing her and taking away her passport, making her trip back to her home state impossible.