Saudi-led coalition 'starts sending' freed prisoners to Yemen
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition engaged in Yemen has said it started transporting released prisoners to Yemen in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) under a humanitarian initiative to support a United Nations-brokered truce.
The coalition said last month it would release 163 prisoners from Yemen’s Houthi group who fought against Saudi Arabia, but a Houthi official later said the list included individuals who did not belong to the movement.
The ICRC spokesman in Yemen, Bashir Omar, told the Reuters news agency that 108 freed detainees would be flown from Saudi Arabia to the southern port city of Aden, where Yemen’s Saudi-backed government is based, and nine to the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa.
The coalition said two flights had left for Yemen and a third was also due. It said it was handing over “foreign fighters” to their embassies, Saudi state news agency SPA reported, without specifying nationalities or numbers.
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