Cairo: Video-sharing website YouTube has been blocked for a month in Egypt after a court ordered authorities to take measures to block access to the site for hosting an anti-Islam film that sparked protests across the Muslim world last year.
The order came after a complaint by an Egyptian who accused YouTube of being a “threat to social peace” by putting the US-made film online.
The crudely made “Innocence of Muslims” depicted the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) as a buffoon and paedophile, and sparked a wave of angry anti-US protests across the Middle East in which more than 30 people were killed, AFP reported.
There was no immediate comment on the ruling on Saturday from the government spokesman in Cairo.
In Pakistan also, YouTube, a subsidiary of US Internet giant Google, has been blocked since December for refusing to heed Islamabad’s call to remove the controversial video.
On January 29, a Egyptian court upheld death sentences passed on seven Egyptian Coptic Christians in absentia for making the film.
The accused, including the movie’s director, are currently living in the United States.
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