Majid Fadhayil, the spokesman for the government delegation concerned with the file of prisoners and abductees, said that the Houthi militia is still obstructing the humanitarian file and is always working to thwart it by relating the file of the abducted politician, included in Security Council Resolution 2216, Mr. Muhammad Qahtan, to fictitious names that do not exist in Marib or any other party follows the legitimate government.

In a statement he made to Almasdaronline, Fadhayil - who is the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Rights in the legitimate government - added that the Houthi militia insists on relating the issue of revealing the fate of the politician Muhammad Qahtan or completing a prisoner exchange deal in which he is included, with revealing fictitious names that we do not know about and exchanging them with him.”

He made it clear that "The Houthi militia strongly insists on the presence of these names in Marib, despite our response to them repeatedly since the Stockholm Agreement that these names do not exist and we have no knowledge of them."

He continued: “This is pure intransigence, because Mr. Muhammad Qahtan is a well-known politician and civilian who was abducted from his home, in addition to the party that abducted him is known as well, and it is the same party that has been working to disappear him for more than 8 years until this moment. As for the names claimed by the Houthi militia, which it claims are fighters who went missing in battles before or after 2016, and which it claims arbitrarily that they are prisoners in Marib.”

Fadhayil stressed that "these names do not exist in Marib or in any other party affiliated with the legitimate government," and he considered that "relating the politician Muhammad Qahtan to these names is intransigence and an insistence on thwarting the file and freezing it."

Qahtan's fate remains unknown since he was abducted and forcibly disappeared by the militia more than eight years ago, during which a number of his family members died, including his mother, and 3 military commanders who were included in the Security Council resolution were released alongside Qahtan, while the militia refuses to reveal his fate or allow his family to visit him, despite widespread demands by local and international human rights organizations.