Sayyed al-Houthi Presents Humanitarian Initiative to Release Saudi Prisoner
YemenExtra
SH.A.
The leader of the revolution, Sayyed. Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, presented a humanitarian initiative to prepare for the release of the Saudi prisoner whose health has deteriorated due to hepatitis without any compensation and after the Saudi regime ignored the call for a prisoner exchange.
This came during a meeting with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen, Martin Griffith, on Monday in which the Leader of the Revolution expressed readiness to release the Saudi prisoner Musa Shu’i Ali Awaji as a humanitarian initiative after the Saudi regime ignored its critical health status.
He said that “the difficulties and obstacles faced by the file of prisoners proves the lack of seriousness of the other party to implement the agreement, noting that the disregard of the Saudi regime for the status of the critical prisoner revealed their inhumanity even to soldiers.”
On January 18, the National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs clarified that it had informed the Saudi side through the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen that one of the Saudi prisoners (Musa Shu’i Ali Awaji) was infected with the liver virus and his condition was worsening day after day.
“Although we have tried our best to cure him, his condition is beyond our therapeutic capabilities because of the country’s difficulty in importing medicines and medical supplies as a result of the blockade imposed on the country four years ago,” the Committee added.
The sick Saudi prisoner Awaji appealed to the authorities of his country on January 19 in a video broadcast by Al-Masirah channel, the exchange of prisoners for treatment outside Yemen because of the seriousness of his health.
Yemen has been suffering from a Saudi-led military campaign since 2015, which has caused the worlds worst humanitarian crisis, in addition of pushing the impoverished state to the brink of famine, more than 22 million are in vital need of humanitarian aid.