Facebook Banned in Bangladesh

After Facebook’s ban in Pakistan, Facebook is also banned in Bangladesh. The reason, however, is a bit different.

Bangladesh has blocked social networking website Facebook over blasphemous caricatures and “obnoxious” images of the country’s leaders, an official said on Sunday.

The website was blocked in Bangladesh late on Saturday, the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission said.

The move was ordered after the website “hurt the religious sentiments of the country’s majority Muslim population” by publishing sacrilegious caricatures, BTRC acting chairman Hasan Mahmud Delwar said.

BBC reports that the ban is also related to the Prophet Muhammad’s cartoon

Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook after satirical images of the prophet Muhammad and the country’s leaders were uploaded, say reports.