What Is Blood Money? Only Option Now To Save Kerala Nurse On Death Row In Yemen

Nimisha Priya can be hanged anytime after the Supreme Court in Yemen rejected her appeal against the death penalty but there is still a glimmer of hope for her family to save the Malayali nurse.

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has been imprisoned in Yemen since 2017 ( Image Source :X/@myvakil )

A pall of gloom descended upon the family of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya after the Supreme Court in Yemen rejected her appeal against the death penalty handed to her for murdering a Yemeni native. Priya, who has been imprisoned in Yemen since 2017, can be hanged anytime but there is still a glimmer of hope for her family to save the Malayali nurse. And that is by paying "blood money" to the family of the deceased. But, here too, there is a hurdle. Priya's family cannot travel to Yemen as India