A Cairo court has ordered that the website YouTube be banned in Egypt for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.
The film by an Egyptian in the United States caused uproar for denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Lawyer Mohammed Hamid Salim, who filed the lawsuit last year, alleges the film constitutes a threat to Egypt's security. Past verdicts ordering the blocking of websites deemed offensive in Egypt have not been applied.
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