Al-Mortada: Aggression of coalition puts several conditions to fail prisoner exchange deal

Quoted from Yemen Press Agency that the head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs, Abdul Qadir Al-Mortada, revealed the Saudi-led coalition has obstructed a large prisoner exchange deal among two warring parties.

Al-Mortada said on Twitter that people from the relatives of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh seek also to put obstacles towards carrying out the deal agreement.

“During the last round of negotiations in Amman, we were about to agree with the representative of the West Coast fronts and the southern provinces on the exchange deal that includes (Mahmoud Subaihi) and (Ibn Tariq Saleh and his brother), he added.

He said, “But the representative of the Saudi-backed Islah part who was heading their team refused and failed the agreement.”

Al-Mortada had made it clear in previous statements in this regard that the recent round of negotiations in Jordan under the auspices of the United Nations failed due to intransigence on purpose by the coalition forces.

Additionally, “We tried in every way to succeed in the Amman negotiations and presented a number of fair proposals to overcome the differences, but they failed.”

“We offered an exchange of Yemeni prisoners with Sudanese, who have been captured on the border fronts, and they refused, but the coalition stipulated that the Saudi prisoners were released firstly,” he added.

He considered that the justifications of the coalition about the humanity of the prisoners’ file are propaganda.