YEMEN CONFLICT PRISONERS EXCHANGE

Yemen's warring parties complete prisoners exchangei

epa10576066 Freed Yemeni journalists, sentenced to death by the Houthis, (down-up) Abdelkhaleq Amran, Tawfiq Al-Mansouri and Akram Al-Walidi arrive at an airport on the third day of a prisoner swap in the government-contorlled of Marib, Yemen, 16 April 2023. Four Yemeni journalists, detained for more than seven years and sentenced to death by the Houthis, were released under the three-day exchange of 887 prisoners of war between Yemen?s warring parties. According to international organizations, the journalists were kidnapped in 2015 and sentenced to death by a Houthi-linked court five years later. The Houthis have agreed to release 181 detainees, including Saudis and Sudanese soldiers who fought alongside Yemeni government forces, in exchange for 706 prisoners held by the Yemeni government, under the UN and ICRC-brokered prisoner swap deal reached last March in Switzerland. EPA/HISHAM AL-HELALI

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