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Advisory / Note to all Internet users in EGYPT

Country forums / Africa / Egypt
kalimera00:01 UTC11 Feb 2013

Egypt court bans YouTube.

Reuters,Saturday Feb 9, 2013. An Egyptian court ordered the suspension of "YouTube" for 30 days for broadcasting anti-Islamic film.

On Saturday, Feb 9, 2013, Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered the government to BLOCK access to the video sharing website for one month for carrying anti-Islamic documentry.

catw12:18 UTC11 Feb 2013

Another grotesquely misinformed post from Kalimera.

An Egyptian court ordered a one-month suspension of YouTube in Egypt following the broadcasting by YouTube of a movie trailer that incited to religious hatred. However the sentence can be appealed and has not been enforced yet.

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