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Red Cross conducts rare visit with 3,400 Yemen war prisoners
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SANAA, 22 December 2022, (TON): The Red Cross said “it had conducted rare visits to thousands of prisoners on both sides of Yemen’s eight-year civil war, a step that could pave the way for an exchange of detainees between the rival parties.”
Fabrizio Carboni, the International Committee of the Red Cross’s director for the Middle East, told The Associated Press that the members of the organization had seen more than 3,400 individuals in a 10-day visit to a facility in Saudi Arabia in December and a separate trip to Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in October.
He said “members of the organization had been allowed access to some of the most “secret and sensitive places in each country, and will be able to inform many detainees’ loved ones of their whereabouts.”
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