Yemen Separatist Leader Arrested in Aden

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The leader of Yemen's secessionist Southern Movement was arrested in the southern port city of Aden by an "armed military group" on Sunday and was taken to an unknown location, his family said.

Hasan Baoum was arrested in a hospital where he was receiving treatment, his youngest son Fadi Hasan Baoum said.

North and south Yemen formally united in 1990 but some in the south, home to many of Yemen's oil facilities, say northerners have since seized resources and discriminated against them.

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