According to the BBC this facebook page for “Everybody draw Mohammed Day” appears to have provoked censorship of the whole Facebook website in Pakistan. The BBC’s related links don’t include the campaign page itself, however.

A court in Pakistan has ordered the authorities temporarily to block the Facebook social networking site.

The order came when a petition was filed following reports that the site was holding a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The petition, filed by a lawyers’ group called the Islamic Lawyers’ Movement, said the contest was “blasphemous”.

Internet is free in Pakistan but the government monitors content by routing all traffic through a central exchange.

Justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court ordered the department of communications to block the website until 31 May, and to submit a written reply to the petition by that date.

An official told the court that parts of the website that were holding the competition had been blocked, reports the BBC Urdu service’s Abdul Haq in Lahore.

But the petitioner said a partial blockade of a website was not possible and that the entire link had to be blocked.

The lawyers’ group says Pakistan is an Islamic country and its laws do not allow activities that are “un-Islamic” or “blasphemous”.

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8691406.stm