China has blocked the access to video-sharing website YouTube in the country, a media report said on Wednesday.

The paper quoted Google as saying that it did not know why the site had been blocked. But a report by the official Xinhua news agency of China yesterday said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after riots last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.