Did alakhbar join the Arab dictatorships family of censors and opinion grinders?

As'ad Abukhalil, Marxist-Leftist and feminist intellectual, who writes a weekly column in the leftist Lebanese newspaper Alakhbar wrote an article this week that was not allowed to be published. It is about the Ba'ath party, criticizing it, which Alakhbar's administration did not agree to publish. It is entitled 'The Ba'ath party: The Process of Long Death'. He published it on his blog instead. Many attacks have been launched on Alakhbar and its editor, but I think it has to do with those who fund it. I mean, who funds a newspaper like Alakhbar in Lebanon? This has not only to do with Abukhalil. There are many (marginalized) opinions who could also fall victim to this as well. If there was one newspaper that represented the marginalized voices, it was Alakhbar. It represented the alternative, and challenged (supposedly) the mainstream. It was thought to be radical, principled and championed those silenced voices. This is a HUGE dissapointment and the readers of the paper deserve more than this ambiguous and untelling apology.