Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- The Bangladesh government Monday night blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube to prevent screening anti-Islamic film denigrating Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM).
The access of the YouTube was blocked around 10:00pm (local time), Mir Morshed Ahmed, Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) director (public relation and publication) reportedly confirmed.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Sunday requested the Internet giant Google to block in Bangladesh the controversial anti-Islam movie trailer on the video-sharing website owned by Google.
Md Giashuddin Ahmed, chairman in charge of BTRC, said the commission had sent a letter to Google to this end.
Google is accessed in Bangladesh through its Indian office and so the letter has been sent to Google India, a BTRC official said.
One cannot do anything that hurts people's religious sentiments, the BTRC official said quoting the existing laws.
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