News - Yemen: The UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC) placed, Monday, the head of Southern Movement Council for Liberation Forces under house arrest in the city of Aden.

The head of the Movement Council, activist Laila Al-Kathiri, confirmed, in a press statement, that she was kidnapped by members of the STC, and that she was released on condition  that she remains under house arrest.

Al-Kathiri indicated that armed elements surrounded the gathering place of the demonstrators' vehicles in Dar Saad area, and removed the demonstrators from the buses and prevented them from participating in Mansoura protests.

For the ninth consecutive day, the city of Aden is witnessing a series of protests denouncing the deteriorating living conditions and the collapse of services, and to demand an end to the collapse of the currency, amid a campaign of kidnappings that affected more than 280 demonstrators in various areas of the city.

The Crater area entered a state of civil disobedience, amid the spread of protesters in the streets of the area in defiance of the “transitional” decision to impose a curfew at the end of last week.