Dubai: Bahrain has suspended the publication of Al Wasat newspaper, one of the five dailies in Arabic in the country.
“The Information Affairs Authority has temporarily suspended Al Wasat newspaper until further notice,” Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said. “This is due to its violation of the law and repeated dissemination of information that affects national unity and the Kingdom’s relationship with other countries,” the official news agency said.
The newspaper was first published in 2002 following the launch of political and constitutional reforms by King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa who came to power in March 1999 following the death of his father.
The daily was suspended in 2011 after it was accused of “resorting to lies, falsification and plagiarism as its guiding principles and deceiving its readers by publishing fabricated stories and photos, and thus directly and deliberately posing a real threat to the kingdom's security and stability.”
Mansoor Al Jamri, 53, is the daily’s editor in chief.
