Al-Mortadha accuses Saudi Arabia of deliberately sabotaging prisoner exchange deal

SANAA, Sept. 7 (YPA) – Head of the National Committee for War Prisoners Affairs, Abdulqader Al-Mortadha, on Friday said that the US-backed Saudi-led aggression prevented several exchanges of prisoners and deliberately targeted its war prisoners, fighters caught in different fronflines, in the buildings, of Community College in Dhamar.

Al-Mortadha revealed in an interview on Almasirah channel that the committee was in the process of completing a prisoner exchange deal with the mercenaries in Taiz that was to be implemented before Eid al-Adha, but the committee was surprised by new conditions that hindered the exchange.

He said that among the prisoners who were part of the exchange deal 25 prisoners were transferred to Dhamar prison after the failure of the deal before being targeted by the aggression.

He stressed that the aggression has targeted, since the beginning of its aggression on Yemen, 45 prisons, killing more than 500 and injuring more than 800 others.

Al-Mortadha pointed out that the Committee has called the victims’ families to communicate with the Red Cross to get the bodies of their sons.

The head of the Committee reiterated his call to the US-backed Saudi-led mercenaries to carry out an exchange process including all prisoners on both sides without referring to the coalition of aggression, which deliberately thwarted any progress in this humanitarian file over the past period.

E.M