The head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs, Abdul Qadir Al-Murtadha, announced that the prisoners swap process between Yemen and Saudi Arabia will start on Friday.
In a tweet, al-Murtadha explained that “After all parties announced readiness to implement the agreed-on deal, we were informed by the International Committee of the Red Cross that they will start the implementation on Friday, the 23rd of Ramadan 1444, the 14th of April 2023.”
بعد إعلان جميع الأطراف جهوزيتهم لتنفيذ الصفقة المتفق عليها تم إبلاغنا من قبل اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر أنهم سيبدأون التنفيذ من بعد غدٍ الجمعة 23/رمضان/ 1444 ..الموافق 14/4/2023 .
ونسأل الله التوفيق والعون في إنجاح هذه الصفقة وفي تحرير جميع الأسرى..— عبدالقادر المرتضى (@abdulqadermortd) April 12, 2023
For his part, spokesman for the pro-coalition government delegation regarding the negotiations about the detainees and the kidnapped, Majed Fadhil, affirmed that the process will start on Friday morning and will last for three days and is expected to end on Sunday. “The detainees will pass through six airports. This was arranged by the ICRC.”
“The flights will take off and land between, firstly: Sana’a-Aden and then Mocha-Sana’a and Sana’a-Tadawin, Sana’a-Riyadh and Abha and Sana’a,” he said.
