A wide southern celebration of the prisoners.. and Al-Zubaidi: We will not calm down until all southerners return and justice returns to its people

English - Saturday 15 April 2023 الساعة 08:16 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, exclusive:

With red carpets and under the flag of the south, and in a majestic welcome, the capital, Aden, received, among large crowds, the southern prisoners on board the Red Cross plane.  Within the process of exchanging hundreds of kidnapped prisoners between the legitimacy and Iran's arm in Yemen, as part of an agreement concluded between the two parties last March, stipulating the release of about 887 prisoners.

On the ground and in the virtual world on communication platforms, people in the south expressed their great joy at the return of the southern prisoners, headed by the former Minister of Defense Al-Subaihi.  To the bosom of their families after years of captivity in the grip of Iran's arm, under broad headlines, the most important of which is: "The feast of your families has become two feastse."

The President of the Transitional Council, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Aidaroos Al-Zubaidi, congratulated the heroes of the prisoners liberated from the prisons of the Houthi militia, led by the hero, Major General Mahmoud Ahmed Salem Al-Subaihi, the former Minister of Defense, and Major General Nasser Mansour Hadi, and their companions, for their safe return, thank God, to their homeland and their families.

He reassured the people of the south that their efforts are continuing to liberate all southern prisoners and detainees, for the freedom of every southerner is an integral part of the liberation of the land.

He saluted all the efforts made by our negotiating team throughout the stages of the exchange negotiations, as well as the efforts made by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and all the endeavors made for the liberation of our prisoners and their safe return to their homeland and their loved ones.

Southerners said that the successes of the southern forces and their families, Houthi prisoners who were dealt with according to Islamic values, culminated today in the liberation of the southern prisoners.

The official spokesman for the southern forces, Muhammad al-Naqeeb, said, “Today we proudly celebrate the achievement of liberating the southern prisoners, headed by the heroic commander Major General Mahmoud al-Subaihi and Major General Nasser Mansour Hadi. This political, military and humanitarian achievement came as a result of the constant and relentless action by the leadership of the Southern Transitional Council represented by President Commander Aidarous  Al-Zubaidi.

Regarding the reception of the prisoners, the captain said that this great reception reflects the status and high value that the southern prisoner enjoys in official and popular appreciation and consideration, as there is nothing greater than the freedom of a hero who spends years of his life in enemy prisons, raising the flag of his homeland and defending it steadfastly.  Without fear, whatever the cost.

And political journalist Nabil Al-Soufi wrote, “Major General Mahmoud Al-Subaihi and Major General Nasser Mansour Hadi) were released from Houthi prisons while he was still just a militia. He overthrew the state, believing that he would become the state.  Their families are in Aden, and they went out, and all of Aden receives them.

The Egyptian lawyer, Nashwa Hamdi, tweeted, and said, "It is nice that I, as an Egyptian, feel joy for our southern brothers. They have witnessed enough injustice and their participation in joy and sadness is a duty. From Egypt, I see that the Arab south receives Al-Subaihi to hold him with many responsibilities that were deferred, and not just to embrace their children."  Little ones, may God reward you with all the good that will be added to your grievances.”

Major General Al-Subaihi had arrived in his hometown, the village of Azafah, and was received by a large gathering of his family, lovers, notables, notables, and people from the regions of Al-Sabiha and neighboring areas.

Many families shared, through social media platforms, the joy of the arrival of their captive children in their arms during the nights of the blessed month of Ramadan, stressing that their feast this year will be two feasts.