YouTube has been banned in Egypt for a month

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• A high Egyptian court docket has dominated that YouTube would possibly possess to peaceful be
  banned for a month within the nation.
• The ban comes after the to find space hosted a video
  denigrating the Prophet Mohammad.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s high administrative court docket dominated on
Saturday that regulators need to block the video file-sharing space
YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet
Mohammad, a lawyer who filed the case instructed Reuters.

A lower administrative court docket had ordered that the Ministry of
Communications and Records Technology block YouTube, owned by
Google, in 2013 over the video, however the case used to be appealed and its
ruling stayed at some stage within the charm direction of.

The ministry on the time acknowledged it will perhaps maybe presumably be not most likely to implement
the ruling with out also disrupting Google’s Cyber net search
engine, incurring potentially gigantic costs and job losses within the
Arab world’s most populous nation.

The Ministry of Communications and Records Technology used to be no longer
instantly on hand for commentary. YouTube regarded as if it will perhaps maybe presumably be working
in Egypt on Saturday as of 12.50 p.m. GMT (eight.50 a.m ET).

The film « Innocence of Muslims », a low-budget 13-minute video,
used to be billed as a film trailer and made in California with interior most
funding. It provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in Egypt and
varied Muslim countries when it appeared in 2012.

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Mohamed Hamid Salem, a lawyer who filed the case in 2013, acknowledged
the ruling also orders that all hyperlinks that broadcast the film be
blocked.

The ruling is believed to be closing and can’t be appealed.

(Reporting by Mohamed Abdellah, Haitham Ahmed, Moeman Saeed
Atallah; Writing by Eric Knecht; Enhancing by Toby Chopra)