Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene with Yemeni authorities and save Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to be executed in Yemen.In a letter to Modi on Sunday, Vijayan appealed to him to take up the matter and intervene with the authorities concerned to save the life of Nimisha Priya. Consider the fact that this is a case deserving sympathy, he said.
In the letter, he also attached a letter he had written to the Union Minister for External Affairs on March 24, 2025.
Nimisha Priya, who hails from Kollengode in Palakkad district of Kerala, was convicted in 2020 for the murder of her Yemeni business partner in July 2017.