CAIRO, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's top administrative court ordered on Saturday to block YouTube streaming website for one month over hosting a video that denigrates Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
A lower administrative court has previously ordered the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to do so, but the latter appealed against the ruling, citing it was hard to implement.
The top administrative court rejected the NTRA appeal on Saturday and upheld the YouTube temporary ban as a final, unappealable ruling.
The lawsuit dates back to 2013 when an Egyptian lawyer demanded for blocking YouTube in Egypt until the offensive clip on Prophet Muhammad and other anti-Islamic videos are removed.
Privately funded and produced in California, the video in discussion first appeared on YouTube in 2012, raising a wave of anti-American outrage in the Muslim world where Prophet Muhammad is highly revered.
It is unclear how the temporary ban will be implemented, as YouTube was still working in Egypt Saturday afternoon.
