Goa, July 15 -- The execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen, has been postponed, reports said on Tuesday. The 38-year-old from Kerala's Palakkad district remains in prison in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi group.

Last-minute efforts to save her life were led by prominent Sunni cleric Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar, who reached out to religious authorities in Yemen. Sufi scholar Sheikh Habib Umar bin Hafiz is now leading negotiations with the family of the deceased, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in Dhamar, Mahdi's hometown.

"The fact that the family has agreed to talk to Sheikh Habib Umar's representatives gives us hope," a source was quoted as saying. A close relative of Mahdi, wh...