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Saudi-Backed Government Thwart Exchange Deals for Two Hundred Prisoners

News - Yemen: The head of National Committee for Prisoners Affairs revealed that the Saudi-backed government had thwart to implement more than ten local exchange operations that had been agreed upon.

"We had hoped for a breakthrough in the prisoners' issue, even at the level of local negotiations, and we made all efforts to make it successful, but unfortunately the intransigence of the Saudi-backed government  prevented that," Abdulqadir Al-Murtadha said.

In early June, the Head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs urged the UN Envoy to take benefit from the renewal of the truce to move forward with the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement.

"We hope that the new truce will not end without noticeable progress in the prisoner exchange issue, as happened in the previous truce," Al-Mortadha wrote in a tweet.

He noted that most of the released prisoners spent more than six years in the prisons of the coalition of the US-Saudi aggression.

Al-Murtadha stressed that the role of the United Nations in the prisoners' exchange is weak and does not live up to the required level, and the last deal through it took place last year.

He stressed that the new UN envoy should allocate a team to monitor the prisoners' issue on a permanent and continuous basis.

A UN-backed agreement, which has been reached between the warring sides during a round of UN-sponsored peace negotiations in Sweden in December 2018, could not commit to release all for all prisoners.

The Prisoners’ Committee had announced late March the agreement with the US-Saudi aggression on a prisoner exchange deal through the UN to release 1,400 prisoners of the Army and Popular Committees, in return for 823 from the other side. The agreement incoulds 16 Saudi prisoners and three Sudanese, in addition to Nasser Mansour Hadi and Mahmoud Al-Subaihi. However, the other party is still procrastinating without implementing what was agreed upon.

More than a year has passed since the implementation of the only prisoner exchange deal under the auspices of the United Nations. After that it was unable to implement any new deal due to the obstruction of the US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries from implementing the rest of the signed agreements, in addition to the clear UN inability to move this humanitarian issue.

In the face of the obstacles that the aggression places in the way of implementing prisoner exchange agreements, including those carried out under the auspices of the United Nations, the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee seeks exchanges through local mediation, but the aggression is trying to close this door as well.

The mercenaries of the aggression had received strict Saudi directives to prevent local exchanges since March 2021, and as a result, the National Committee for Prisoners' Affairs was only able to carry out some individual exchanges.

In June 2020, the Head of the National Committee for Prisoners' Affairs revealed new Saudi directives to mercenaries to stop all locally agreed exchanges. He explained that the Saudi directives to its mercenaries led to the suspension of seven prisoner swap deals on several fronts, including 400 prisoners from both sides.

After a period of delay, the forces of aggression carried out in mid-October 2020 a swap deal that included hundreds of prisoners from both sides under an agreement signed after negotiations hosted by Switzerland.

#Yemen #US-Saudi Aggression #National Committee for Prisoners Affairs #UN-Sponsored Truce 22-07-09
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