By Mohammed Alghobari
Aden (Reuters) -An official of Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Saturday the group had received 13 detainees released by Saudi Arabia in exchange for a Saudi detainee freed earlier, ahead of a wider prisoner exchange agreed by the warring sides.
Houthi official Abdul Qader al-Mortada said on Twitter the 13 detainees had arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which is held by the Iranian -aligned Houthi group that has been battling a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia since 2015.
The Saudi government media office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
At talks in Switzerland last month attended by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and the Houthis agreed to free 887 detainees.
“The detainees released today from Saudi prisons are part of the deal agreed via the United Nations, and next Thursday … the…
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