YouTube blocked in Bangladesh over anti-Islamic clip

• DHAKA: The government in Bangladesh has blocked YouTube to prevent people from seeing an anti-Islam video produced in the US ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.
• Mir Mohammaed Morshed, a spokesman for the state-run Bangladesh Telecommunications Company, says the government blocked YouTube late Monday. He says the decision will remain effective until further notice.
• On Sunday, the chief of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said the government sent a letter to Google, which owns YouTube, urging it to remove the video. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the same request.
• Google has blocked access to the video in Libya and Egypt following violence there, and inIndonesia and India because it says the video broke laws in those countries.
• Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people but is governed by laws based on British common law.