Tahseen Salah Khayat (Arabic:تحسين صلاح الخياط; born October 24, 1942; Sidon, Lebanon) is a Lebanese entrepreneur and the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Jadeed TV station.
[4] He had prominent positions on the Lebanese–Syrian Security Apparatus, leading to his arrest after charges were fabricated against him, and his release later by the late prime minister Omar Karami.
[9][10][11] In 1997, the Al Jadeed station was forcibly closed as a result of Syrian intervention and parallel government repression during the rule of the late president Rafik Hariri.
[13] On December 7, 2003, Khayat was arrested and falsely accused of collaboration with Israel by involved personalities in Al-Madina Bank scandal where his detention lasted for one day and he was released.
[18] In April 2015, Al Jadeed TV and its vice president, Karma Khayat, went on trial on charges of "knowingly and wilfully interfering with the administration of justice" after the August 2012 broadcasting of the names of alleged secret witnesses in the Hariri case.
[23] Khayat's family origins go back to Ahmed Al-Zein, who was one of those wanted on the list of those sentenced to death by the Turkish military courts during the Jamal Pasha era.