CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have arrested the editor of an independent news website for operating without a license, the latest episode in a widening crackdown on independent media, officials said Wednesday.

They said Adel Sabri was arrested late Tuesday and taken to a Cairo police station, while the offices of the Masr al-Arabia website were shuttered. Prosecutors were questioning Sabri on Wednesday, they said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The arrest came a day after President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi won a second four-year term in office, with 97 percent of the vote in last week’s election.

The officials said the Masr al-Arabia site was fined nearly $3,000 by the media regulatory body earlier this week for publishing an Arabic translation of a New York Times report that said voters were offered cash, food, and promises of better services in exchange for their participation.

The Egyptian newspaper El-Masri El-Youm was fined $8,500 over its own, similar report.

The newspaper published an apology on Tuesday.

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