BNA said the Information Ministry decided to stop al-Wasat from being printed or circulated until further notice for "repeating the publication of ...that which spreads divisions in society and affects the Kingdom of Bahrain (vis a vis) other countries." The order was due to Al-Wasat's "violation of the law and repeatedly publishing what sows division in the society and affects Bahrain's relations with other states," BNA said. The Information Affairs Ministry said Sunday the decision to shut down Al-Wasat came over its publication of a story “affecting the relations of the kingdom of Bahrain with other countries.”

Mansoor al-Jamri, the paper’s editor-in-chief, told The Associated Press that the article dealt with a northern Morocco town where the arrest of demonstrators has aggravated public anger over corruption and poor economic conditions. - Authorities intensify crackdown -

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Authorities in Bahrain had suspended the electronic edition of Al-Wasat for few days in January over accusations of sowing sedition and harming national unity. Al-Wasat, founded by private investors in 2002, was briefly closed in 2015 and the government cited similar reasons then.
Bahrain bans the independent Al-Wasat newspaper on grounds that it "sows division" in the Shia-majority kingdom.