Yemen rebels free 290 prisoners in move hailed by UN, ICRC

SANAA: Yemen's Huthi rebels have freed 290 prisoners, including dozens of survivors from a Saudi-led coalition strike on a detention centre earlier this month, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday .

"I hope this step will lead to further initiatives that will facilitate the exchange of all the conflict-related detainees as per the Stockholm Agreement," Griffiths said, referring to the 2018 accord. Mortaza reiterated Huthi claims that they had taken prisoner more than 2,000 fighters, including Saudi soldiers, in the August offensive near the southern Saudi region of Najran.Footage aired by the Huthis on Sunday, which had been billed as showing proof of the mass capture, was short on details.

Mortaza said the fighters were held in what he described as the rebels' largest"operation to capture prisoners" and that they would be treated"humanely". "We urge the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to press the other side into taking a similar step or give us the same number of their prisoners in any future deal."Since the Saudi-led coalition intervened to back up the government in 2015, the fighting has plunged the country - the poorest in the Arab world - into what the UN calls the globe's worst humanitarian crisis.

Tensions between Riyadh and Tehran have soared since the Iran-backed Huthis claimed responsibility for strikes on Saudi oil installations that knocked out half of the OPEC kingpin's production.

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