Actress sues California man linked to anti-Muslim film

Actress Cindy Lee Garcia is accusing him of duping her into appearing in the video she had been led to believe was a desert adventure movie. Ms Garcia also named Google and its YouTube unit, where the film was posted on the internet, as defendants in the case, citing invasion of privacy and other allegations. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court also requested that the film be removed from the internet. Meanwhile, Sudan has ordered the blocking of access to YouTube to prevent people watching the film, a senior government official said. Google has already blocked access to the film in Egypt, Libya, India and Indonesia after deadly protests in several countries, but it has rejected a request by the White House to pull it from the site altogether. The film "Innocence of Muslims", clips of which were posted on the internet, portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and has provoked an outcry among Muslims and triggered violent attacks on embassies across North Africa and the Middle East. The Sudanese government decided to block YouTube after failing to remove the film, Azz el-Din Kamel, head of the country's telecommunications authority told Reuters. He said: "We sent a letter to Google on Saturday requesting to remove the film that insults Prophet Muhammad from YouTube but when we didn't get any response we tried blocking the film. "Since blocking the film faced some difficulties we were forced to block the entire YouTube website. This freeze will stay in place until the film gets blocked from the site." For many Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous and caricatures or other characterisations have in the past provoked protests in many countries.