Al-Murtadha: Saudi-led aggression forces obstruct prisoner exchange

SANAA, Oct. 24 (YPA) – The Head of the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs Abdulqadir Al-Murtadha confirmed on Sunday that US-Saudi aggression  forces and its mercenaries are obstructing the implementation of the agreements signed regarding the exchange of prisoners in light of the inability of the United Nations to move this humanitarian issue,.

“A full year has passed since the implementation of the first and last prisoner exchange deal under the auspices of the United Nations,” Al-Murtadha wrote in a post published on his Twitter page.

After that we were unable to implement any new deal due to the obstruction of the forces of 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, and as a result, the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs was only able to carry out some individual exchanges.

Last June, Al-Murtadha 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 in Switzerland.

E.M