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Hailing from Palakkad, Priya, a nurse by profession, reached Yemen in 2012 with her husband. In 2015, with the help of Talal Mahdi, she set up a clinic. Her husband and child who had gone to
Kerala could not return as the civil war broke out in Yemen and the country stopped issuing new visas. Nimisha had told TNM that Mahdi started harassing her at this time. Mahdi allegedly
brutally tortured and abused Nimisha. He also allegedly forged documents to show that he was married to her. She also accused him of torturing her and taking away her passport, making her
trip back to her home state impossible.