Ban on Al-Hayat newspaper in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Min­istry of Cul­ture and Infor­ma­tion issued a ban on Al-Hayat news­pa­per since yes­ter­day Mon­day 27-8-2007.

Although the news­pa­per owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sul­tan bin Abdul Aziz, an anony­mouse source from the Saudi min­istry said:

This ban due to the dif­fer­ent views between the man­age­ment and edi­tors of the news­pa­per espe­cially after the news­pa­per insists on pub­lish­ing sen­si­tive top­ics on some issues involved the Saudi affairs.

Al-Hayat pub­lished yes­ter­day an arti­cle about Saudi Arabia-Syria dis­pute, par­tially crit­i­cis­ing Saudi Ara­bia pol­icy with Syria:

Saudi Ara­bia usu­ally deal the Arab-Arab dif­fer­ences with cau­tion to keep these dif­fer­ences in the min­i­mum lim­its and leaves room for nego­ti­a­tions, but Riyadh, and espe­cially King Abdul­lah, had decided to adopt a harsh diplo­matic offen­sive pol­icy in deal­ing with Syria.