After the arrest of its Editor in Chief Mohammed Al-Fazari in Oman in 2014 for his political activism,[2] and his escape to the UK seeking political asylum, Muwatin was forced to cease publishing on 14 January 2016 after the arrests and interrogations of its contributing journalists living in Oman.[3] Muwatin was officially back to publishing on May 3, 2017, on World Press Freedom Day after it was registered in London.