Security forces arrested Rashid, editor-in-chief of Mukalla Press, during a raid in Al-Mukalla in the province of Hadhramaut, the news site reported. Authorities did not disclose the basis for the detention.
The site had regularly covered clashes between security forces and disaffected residents of the south of the country. The Sana’a-based government sought throughout the year to restrict coverage of tensions in the south, where demonstrators protested policies they saw as marginalizing the region and denying it public services.