Ghassan Sherbal told AFP that Saudi Arabia’s information ministry had stopped distribution of the newspaper’s local edition since Monday, without specifying the content of the offending articles.
The London-based newspaper sells around 250,000 copies daily in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
"The Saudi information ministry has a number of objections over articles by a Saudi writer about internal issues," an unnamed source at the newspaper told AFP.
Al Hayat in one of the Arab world’s leading newspapers and was set up in Lebanon in 1946.
