Prisoners’ committee informs Saudi regime of health deterioration of Saudi prisoner

SANAA, Jan. 19 (YPA) – The National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs said on Friday that it informed the Saudi side through the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen that one of the Saudi prisoners is sick and his condition is worsening.

In a statement, the committee said that the prisoner, Mousa Shawy Ali Awaji,  was infected with the liver virus and that his health was getting worse day after day. “Although we did our best to treat him, his condition is beyond our therapeutic capabilities because of the country’s difficulty in importing medicines and supplies As a result of the all-out blockade imposed on the country four years ago. ”

The committee explained that it had offered the Saudi side an urgent deal for the prisoner in exchange for releasing a number of wounded prisoners and that the operation would be carried out through the United Nations.

The committee confirmed that it had informed the International Committee of the Red Cross about the prisoner’s condition and had been visited by the ICRC several times, adding “We have asked the ICRC for urgent assistance to deal with it or move to carry out an exchange, and so far there is no response from the Saudi side in this direction.”

The Committee blamed the Saudi side for any health deterioration of the prisoner’s condition as a result of the ignorance of what has been reported to the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Sameera Hassn