Home | World | YouTube drops Moscow attack claim

YouTube drops Moscow attack claim

06/04/2010 11:02:00
Font size: Decrease font Enlarge font

Internet giant Google is removing a video of Russian Islamist militant leader Doku Umarov from its YouTube platform, following complaints from a Russian lawmaker.
In the video Umarov, filmed crouching in battle fatigues in a forest clearing claims personally to have ordered the double suicide rush hour bomb attacks on the Moscow metro on March 29 that killed 40 people and wounded around 80. He vowed more attacks.
“We withdrew it after it was flagged by Internet users,” Alla Zabrovskaya, spokeswoman in Russia for Google, which owns YouTube, told AFP. “Our moderators deemed that this video contained propaganda of hate, violence and intimidation, banned under YouTube’s rules.”

  • email Email to a friend
  • print Print version

Subscribe to comments feed Comments (0 posted):

total: | displaying:

Post your comment comment

Please enter the code you see in the image:

Responsible Right of Expression — In the interest of freedom of expression, coupled with a true sense of responsibility to encourage community dialogue, the Macau Daily Times offers its readers the opportunity to express their opinions on new-related matters through this website. All opinions are welcome. However, we reserve the right to remove comments that are deemed to be obscene, or are merely insults written under the cloak of anonymity. MDT