The Houthi militia refuses conference and tribal mediation to visit the two prisoners Muhammad and Afash Saleh
English - Tuesday 27 October 2020 الساعة 06:27 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Informed sources in the capital, Sanaa, told NewsYemen that the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, refused several partisan and tribal mediation to allow a visit to be arranged for the prisoners of President Saleh's relatives, namely Muhammad Abdullah Saleh and Afash Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, by their relatives.
The sources added that the militia leaders refused mediation by leaders of the General People's Congress in Sana'a, and other tribal sheikhs tried to mediate to allow relatives of the two prisoners Muhammad Muhammad Saleh and Afash Tariq Saleh to visit them to check on their health, stressing that the militias refused even to allow the prisoners to make phone calls with their families.
According to the sources, the militia leaders evade the reasons for preventing them from visiting the two prisoners, claiming that their status is linked to the possibility of an exchange of Houthi prisoners with the Republican Guard forces led by Brigadier Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, father of the captive Afash Saleh, although they reject the status of the prisoners Muhammad Muhammad Abdullah Saleh and Afash Tariq Saleh Within the prisoner exchange lists.
Since the militias released the two sons of Saleh Madian and Salah on October 3, 2018, Houthi leaders have deliberately turned the issue of the two prisoners Aafash Tariq Saleh and his uncle Muhammad Saleh into a case of extortion that links it to the position of Brigadier General Tariq Saleh and his leadership of the Republic's guards that are fighting it on the western coast.
According to sources close to the Houthi militia, the latter was betting on the possibility of the effect of placing Afash and Muhammad Saleh as prisoners of theirs on the position of Brigadier General Tariq Saleh, led by the leadership of the Republican Guard forces, which fought fierce battles against the Houthi militia and was able, within the framework of the joint forces, to liberate vast areas of the western coast extending from Bab Al-Mandab to the outskirts of the port of Hodeidah, which was about to fall in the hands of the joint forces had it not been for the international pressure and the conspiracy by the legitimate government to these victories and the cessation of military operations in accordance with the Sweden agreement that protected the Houthis from falling and collapsing in Hodeidah and kept their control over its ports.
