The International Committee of the Red Cross tells Al Mayadeen that on Sunday, five flights between Sanaa and Marib will take place to transport prisoners.
Al Mayadeen correspondent in Sanaa reported that 48 liberated prisoners arrived at Sanaa airport from Marib airport on the first flights of the third day of the prisoner exchange deal in Yemen.
According to our correspondent, Sanaa International Airport is set to receive on Saturday the third and last batch of prisoners, which includes 105 prisoners from Marib prisons.
The International Committee of the Red Cross told Al Mayadeen that on Sunday, five flights between Sanaa and Marib will take place to complete the transport of prisoners.
Al Mayadeen correspondent confirmed that the first ICRC plane carrying 41 prisoners took off from Sanaa International Airport, heading toward Marib, northeastern Yemen. Another plane carrying 48 prisoners will head in the opposite direction.
The ICRC confirmed that by the end of this day, it will have completed the release of all the detainees agreed upon as per the Swiss negotiations.
The Committee highlighted that during the past two days, it was able to transfer and return 675 detainees home.
On Friday, a massive prisoner exchange between Yemen and Saudi Arabia began, with the first plane leaving Sanaa for Aden, according to the ICRC.
ICRC media advisor Jessica Moussan told AFP that the first plane had officially left Sanaa in a 3-day process that will see the release of roughly 900 prisoners.
The leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, congratulated “the families of the liberated prisoners on their recent freedom,” assuring the rest of the prisoners’ families that “work continues to complete the exchange process until the liberation of all prisoners is achieved.”
The exchange of prisoners between Sanaa and Riyadh comes as part of the implementation of the agreement reached in talks between the parties to the Yemeni conflict in the Swiss capital Bern last March.
Source: Almayadeen
