Saudi coalition transfers Yemeni prisoners as part of truce

By AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Red Cross says that 117 Yemeni prisoners held by the Saudi-led coalition have arrived in the southern port city of Aden as a truce deal between the warring parties entered its second month. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said last week that it would release prisoners to its rivals — the Iran-backed Houthi rebels — in support of the cease-fire agreement. A Houthi official, however, denied that the men were detainees from the war. The Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen’s war in 2015, after the Houthis seized the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and forced the government into exile.