PHOTOS: Latest in protests of anti-Islam film

A look at protests and events around the world Friday connected to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," produced in the United States, and vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a French satirical weekly. At least 49 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been killed in recent violence linked to the protests of the film, which has also renewed debate over freedom of expression in the U.S. and in Europe.

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PAKISTAN

At least 19 people were killed and nearly 200 injured as protests by tens of thousands turned violent in the cities of Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi and the capital of Islamabad after the government encouraged peaceful demonstrations and declared a national holiday ? "Day of Love for the Prophet."

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AFGHANISTAN

About 900 people peacefully protested the film in the capital, Kabul, chanting, "Death to America" and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and a U.S. flag. A few hundred demonstrators also protested inside a mosque in the eastern city of Ghazni.

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IRAN

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the West over the film. Speaking at a military parade in Tehran, he said: "In return for (allowing) the ugliest insults to the divine messenger, they ? the West ? raise the slogan of respect for freedom of speech." He called this explanation "clearly a deception."

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INDONESIA

The United States closed its diplomatic missions across Indonesia due to continuing demonstrations over the film. Small and mostly orderly protests were held outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, in the cities of Surabaya and Medan, and in other smaller towns. No violence was reported.

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IRAQ

About 3,000 people, mostly followers of Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim groups, protested the film and caricatures of the prophet in the southern city of Basra. Demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting, "Death to America" and "No to America." They burned Israeli and American flags.

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SRI LANKA

About 2,000 Muslims burned effigies of Obama and American flags at a protest after Friday prayers in the capital, Colombo, demanding that the United States ban the film.

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BANGLADESH

More than 2,000 people marched through the streets of the capital, Dhaka, to protest the film. They burned a makeshift coffin draped in an American flag, and an effigy of Obama.

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LEBANON

Tens of thousands of supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah movement held a raucous protest in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. Later, a few thousand supporters of a hard-line Sunni cleric gathered in the capital, Beirut. Both demonstrations directed outrage at the U.S. and Israel over what they believed was a grave insult to Muhammad.

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KASHMIR

Police enforced a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, and chased away protesters of the anti-Islam film. Authorities also temporarily blocked cellphone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips.

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GERMANY

Several hundred people gathered in the city of Freiburg in southwest of Germany to protest the film. Some carried banners saying: "The dignity of the Prophet Muhammad is our dignity." Police banned inflammatory slogans. The Interior Ministry postponed a poster campaign aimed at countering radical Islam among young people due to tensions caused by the online video insulting Islam. Germany is home to an estimated 4 million Muslims.

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NORWAY

About 70 people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the capital Oslo to protest the film, shouting, "Obama, Obama, we're all Osama!"

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PHILIPPINES

Constitutional law professor Harry Roque of the University of the Philippines defied a ban by university officials and showed students the film's 14-minute trailer. He said the film was "trash and nothing but trash," and will not convince people Islam is evil.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos-latest-protests-anti-islam-film-205708653.html

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