Somewhere in a prison cell at Sanaa in Yemen, a Malayali nurse, Nimisha Priya, waits for an answer that could decide whether ...

Indian nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen has been stayed for now. However, her future remains uncertain as the ...

The execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, convicted of murdering a Yemeni national, has been postponed from its original ...

Nimisha Priya, the 38-year-old nurse from Kerala, who has been on death row for the murder of a Yemeni national, was ...

The two Islamic laws are being discussed widely as tension mounts over Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya's fate. Whether the crime ...

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen for killing Talal Abdo Mehdi, must undergo 'Qisas', or 'God's law', and nothing more, her brother has averred. Priya was to be executed on ...

It is grounded in Chapter 2, Verse 178 of the Quran and entitles victims’ families to either demand retribution or offer ...

Nimisha Priya's execution in Yemen has been delayed following diplomatic negotiations. Despite this, the family of Talal Abdo ...

Yemen’s Islamic judicial system, known as Sharia, is offering a last hope where she could secure a pardon from the victim’s ...

In Nimisha Priya’s case, the victim’s family in Yemen has refused to accept diyah offered by her family, leaving her fate mostly relying on the Qisas law.

THE law of qisas is derived from the primary source of Islamic law: the Quran. The Quran uses the term ‘qisas’ in the sense of ‘equality’. Let us briefly look at the principle of qisas ...

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen for murder, must face 'Qisas' or 'God's law', according to her victim ...