After Muwatin managed to be a media institution in Oman that provides free space to express liberal Omani voices, especially calling for political reform in the country, its Editor in Chief Al-Fazari was arrested in August 2014 and was held incommunicado for six days.[4] He was arrested again on 22 December 2014 at Muscat International airport by security authorities who informed him that a travel ban had been issued against him.