{"id":97037,"date":"2020-10-17T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97037"},"modified":"2020-10-17T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T01:38:45","slug":"yemeni-govt-houthi-rebels-complete-swap-of-1056-prisoners-red-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97037","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Gov&#8217;t, Houthi Rebels Complete Swap Of 1,056 Prisoners: Red Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANAA, Oct 17 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; The Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, completed the exchange of 1,056 prisoners, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re encouraged by this success and hope that it leads to more steps towards the transfer and release of more detainees,&#8221; tweeted ICRC, organiser of the two-day process of exchange of prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those freed include 15 Saudi and four Sudanese soldiers, of the Saudi-led coalition, which backs the Yemeni government forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, said in a statement, that his government &#8220;will spare no efforts to get all abductees and detainees held in the Houthi militia&#8217;s jails released and ensure return to families.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Abdulkadir al-Murtada, head of the Houthi prisoner committee, was quoted by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV as saying, a total of 670 members of the Houthi group were freed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first major breakthrough in UN-led peace efforts, since the two warring parties, which have held some 15,000 detainees, reached a prisoner swap deal, in Stockholm in 2018.&#8211; NNN-SABA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Oct 17 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; The Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, completed the exchange of 1,056 prisoners, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, said yesterday. &#8220;We&#8217;re encouraged by this success and hope that it leads to more steps towards the transfer and release of more detainees,&#8221; tweeted ICRC, organiser of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}