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Egypt court orders one month YouTube block over anti-Islam film

By AFP
May 27, 2018

CAIRO: Egypt’s top administrative court ordered authorities on Saturday to block video-sharing website YouTube in the country for a month, after a years-long appeals process over a film denigrating Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), a judicial official said.

A lower court had ordered the video sharing site be blocked in 2013 after it carried the video "Innocence of Muslims", but the case was appealed by Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and its ruling was stayed.