Al-Murtada reveals the truth of the alleged Saudi initiative regarding prisoners

The head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs Abdul Qadir Al-Murtada said on Wednesday that after Saudi Arabia presented its alleged initiative regarding the release of some Yemeni prisoners, the International Red Cross informed us that it had visited these detainees and stated that they were of multiple nationalities.

“We were unable to receive these detainees in the prisons of the Saudi regime because they are unknown to us and from multiple countries,” Al-Murtada added in an exclusive statement to Al-Masirah.

“Progress in the negotiations with the United Nations regarding prisoners is very slow, despite the fact that we have presented many steps to resolve this humanitarian issue,” he stressed, explaining that the delay in implementing the prisoner exchange agreement under the auspices of the United Nations is due to the delay of the Saudi-mercenaries from providing their lists.

He expressed his hope that the United Nations would put pressure on the mercenaries to provide the lists and implement the agreed steps to advance the prisoners’ aspect.

“We tried to take advantage of the truce to advance the prisoners’ aspect, but unfortunately this has not happened in a concrete way so far.”

Al-Murtada indicated that more than 5,000 prisoners from the Army and Popular Committees were liberated, 95% of whom were liberated through local mediation, and the same number was from the party affiliated with the coalition of aggression.

On Tuesday, the head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee called on the countries leading the aggression against Yemen to stop trading and bidding on the prisoners’ issue, as it is a completely humanitarian issue.

“After Saudi Arabia claimed to present an initiative to release some of our prisoners, we were informed of a list that includes a number of names, contrary to what they announced, moreover, they are not among our prisoners and are not known to us.”