The Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Monday ordered Facebook to be unblocked in the country, after the government said that the web site had promised to make material considered derogatory inaccessible to users in Pakistan. Facebook was ordered to be blocked by the Lahore court on May 19 after a lawyers' organization filed a petition objecting to a page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425?v=wall) on the Web site called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" which invited users to draw cartoons of Prophet Mohammed. Depictions of the Prophet are prohibited in some Islamic traditions. Facebook has meanwhile run into trouble in neighboring Bangladesh where the site has been blocked since Sunday, after the government objected to content offensive to the Prophet on Facebook. |
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