2 Days Before Execution, Supreme Court To Hear Plea Today To Save Kerala Nurse Nimisha Priya

The story so far: Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya, who is on death row at the Central prison in Yemen’s capital Sanaa for the alleged murder of a Yemeni national, is scheduled to be executed on July 16, according to unconfirmed reports.

The Supreme Court on July 14, 2025 (Monday) heard a plea filed by Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council, an organisation fighting to save her life from the gallows. The Centre told the apex court that “the Government of India is doing whatever is utmost possible” in the matter. Attorney General R.

Venkataramani told a Supreme Court Bench that “having regard to the sensitivity and status of Yemen as a place, there is nothing much the Government of India can do.”