Yemen's Houthis (Ansarallah) on Tuesday (January 29th) released the first prisoner under an agreement with the government brokered last month, AFP reported.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, overseeing the prisoner swap, confirmed a sick Saudi soldier had been transferred from Sanaa to Riyadh.
UN envoy Martin Griffiths said he welcomed the prisoner’s "unconditional release" and hoped to see further such gestures from the warring parties.
The prisoner is the first to be released under a deal agreed between the Yemeni government and the Iran-backed Houthis at UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden last month.
The two parties agreed to exchange 15,000 detainees and have submitted lists of prisoners' names to UN mediators.
