Yemen’s Houthis have released 600 members of government forces held since hostilities resumed in July, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said, according to AFP.
In Sanaa, the chairman of the commission in charge of prisoner affairs, Abdelkader al-Mourtada, called it “the largest unilateral prisoner release and pardon operation in the history of the conflict”.
“Six hundred people detained in connection with the conflict in Yemen were unilaterally released today by authorities in Sanaa,” said the ICRC statement.
Its teams had spoken to each of the detainees, notably to assess their health, it added, without elaborating.
