India, Feb. 13 -- The government is providing all assistance to the family of Nimisha Priya, an Indian on death row in Yemen after being convicted of murdering a Yemeni national, minister of state for external affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Singh was responding to questions from Communist Party of India lawmaker John Brittas, who contended that the government had washed its hands off the matter by arguing that the release of Priya would have to be settled by her family and the family of the Yemeni victim.

Priya was arrested in July 2017 for murdering a Yemeni man who was her business partner. She was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court in 2020 and this was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2023. She is currently...