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Friday, September 21, 2012

U.S. court rejects blocking of Mohammed film on YouTube


A U.S. judge has rejected a blocking of the controversial Mohammed film on the Internet platform YouTube. In the first civil proceedings in connection with the production of videos insulting Luis Lavin pointed by the supreme court in Los Angeles, the application of any party to the actress for a preliminary injunction on Thursday. The applicant's argument has no prospect of success, said Lavin. The actress Cindy Lee Garcia has also filed suit against the producers and casts before this, to have deceived her about the content of the film. It was during the shooting of Mohammed never been a religious reference or mention. Their right to privacy had been violated. Moreover, her life was in danger because she had received death threats. The lawsuit for fraud and libel was filed on Wednesday in a court in Los Angeles, California. The Mohammed defamatory film has in many Muslim countries triggered violent protests in which several people died. Garcia was in the 13-minute work, which is available online, only a small role. In Germany, the announcement of a far-right group, to want to show the film, caused a stir. The filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula have to believe Garcia, it will produce an ordinary adventure film, it said in the lawsuit. Garcia also had no evidence of sexual content. The film represents the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer. A representative of Nakoula declined to comment. The 55-year-old is a Coptic Christian, who lives in California. The film could for him still have far-reaching consequences. On conviction from 2010 for bank fraud him the use of the Internet is permitted only under certain conditions. It could be that because of the movie, go to prison. He was released the 2011th Since a survey by prosecutors on Saturday the man has disappeared.

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