Yemen’s government has said it signed the “largest” prisoner exchange deal with the Houthis, involving 1,728 detainees from both sides.
Yahya Kazman, deputy head of the government negotiating team, said on Thursday in a post on X that the agreement was signed in the Jordanian capital Amman.
“Today, in Amman, the largest deal in the history of the detainees, abductees, and forcibly disappeared file was signed,” Kazman said.
The agreement includes the release of “approximately 1,728 detainees from both parties”, he added.
The deal covers the release of Arab coalition members, personnel from the armed forces and security services, and pro-government soldiers, as well as several politicians and journalists “who spent long years in Houthi prisons”, according to Kazman.
