PAKISTAN: Pakistani police baton charge a crowd protesting against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad near the U.S. consulate in Lahore

Record ID: 870786

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Pakistani police baton charge a crowd protesting against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad near the U.S. consulate in Lahore
  • Date: 17th September 2012
  • Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (SEPTEMBER 17, 2012) (REUTERS) WOMEN PROTESTERS CHANTING "DEATH TO AMERICA" AND ISLAMIC SLOGANS MALE PROTESTERS CHANTING ISLAMIC SLOGANS PROTESTERS SINGING RELIGIOUS HYMNS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS NEAR U.S CONSULATE CHANTING "DEATH TO AMERICA" PROTESTERS KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS AND WALKING OVER THEM WHILE CHANTING "DOWN WITH U.S" POLICE HITTING PROTESTERS WITH
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 2012 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: Pakistan
  • City:
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3SQVPS3393Y3BDP1E7AB4G4I5
  • Aspect Ratio:
  • Story Text: Protesters demonstrating against a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammad threw rocks at police and burned an American flag near the U.S. consulate in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday (September 17).
    Police official Rai Tahir said six policemen and some protesters were hurt.
    He said the police used tear gas and baton charge and managed to push back the protesters.
    Protests erupted in several Pakistani cities over the weekend.
    Pakistani police fired in the air to disperse a crowd headed towards the U.S. consulate in the city of Karachi on Monday.
    Demonstrations have spread in the Muslim world over the video, posted on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims".
    Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered the suspension of YouTube in the country over the video.
    Ashraf's office said in a statement that the Ministry of Information had been ordered to block YouTube so that the "blasphemous" video could not be viewed.
    Interior minister Rehman Malik said he had directed the concerned authorities to block YouTube and warned Google to suspend all links related to the film.

    "Today, I warn the administration of Google that if they do not remove all links related to anti-Islamic content and specially this blasphemous film, I will be compelled to cancel the visas of Google employees here and deport them,"Malik told reporters in Islamabad.
    Muslims in Pakistan and elsewhere around the world have been seething over the video posted on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims".
    U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has condemned the film as "reprehensible" but said it cannot curb the constitutional right to free speech in America.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register