Almotamar Net - SANA'A,(Saba) - About 1,400 prisoners including 220 prisoners, who could not pay financial commitments would be set free shortly after a recommendation from a field inspection committee on jails.

Head of the committee, Judge Mohammed al-Badri, told the al-Mithaq weekly that those prisoners who could not afford their debts were granted financial aid by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Badri said the president's aid will be released next week by heads of appeal courts and prosecutions in provinces of the country ahead of the Eid al-Fitr.

He said the task of the committee was not only to assess legitimacy of imprisonment but also to check out conditions of the jails in terms of food, education, and health care services offered to prisoners.