Bangladesh government blocked the popular video search engine late yesterday.
Google has blocked access to the video in Libya and Egypt following violence there, and in Indonesia and India because it says the video broke laws in those countries.
Bangladesh has blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world, government officials said Tuesday.
The country's telecommunications regulator blocked the website "to
prevent violence and social disorder over the derogatory video", its
acting chairman Giashuddin Ahmed told AFP.
On Sunday, the chief of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said the government sent a letter to Google, which owns YouTube, urging it to remove the video. Premier Sheikh Hasina made the same request.
Pakistan also blocked this Youtube.
Pakistan’s premier said in his statement that “blasphemous material would not be tolerated.” Both countries have seen protests against the movie in recent days.
The film, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, triggered a series of violent demonstrations and attacks on U.S. and European-linked targets across the Muslim world. U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three colleagues were killed in an attack in Benghazi last week, while Muslim protesters in Tunis and elsewhere were killed in clashes with government security forces.
Attempts to access YouTube in Islamabad and Dhaka were unsuccessful, with users in Pakistan receiving a message that the service was unavailable.
Google has blocked access to the video in Libya and Egypt following violence there, and in Indonesia and India because it says the video broke laws in those countries.
Bangladesh has blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world, government officials said Tuesday.
On Sunday, the chief of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said the government sent a letter to Google, which owns YouTube, urging it to remove the video. Premier Sheikh Hasina made the same request.
Pakistan also blocked this Youtube.
Pakistan’s premier said in his statement that “blasphemous material would not be tolerated.” Both countries have seen protests against the movie in recent days.
The film, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, triggered a series of violent demonstrations and attacks on U.S. and European-linked targets across the Muslim world. U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three colleagues were killed in an attack in Benghazi last week, while Muslim protesters in Tunis and elsewhere were killed in clashes with government security forces.
Attempts to access YouTube in Islamabad and Dhaka were unsuccessful, with users in Pakistan receiving a message that the service was unavailable.
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