Overview

• The office of India’s Grand Mufti announced on July 28 that a high-level meeting in Sanaa had fully overturned Nimisha Priya’s death sentence.
• The Ministry of External Affairs rejected the claim as inaccurate, saying it has received no written confirmation from Yemeni authorities.
• Priya’s execution, set for July 16, remains suspended after being halted a day earlier through religious mediation.
• Under Yemen’s Sharia Qisas law, her release depends on a blood money pardon, which her legal team is pursuing.
• India appointed a lawyer to support her family, who traveled to Yemen to negotiate diyah and seek clemency.