As
Trump Bans CNN Acosta UN
Guterres Roughed Up and Bans
Inner City Press 126 Days
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UNITED NATIONS,
November 7 – Amid the outrage
at the Trump White House
suspending the credential and
access of CNN's Jim Acosta -
which we share - it is worth
noting that UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres on 3
July 2018 has critical Inner
City Press roughed up as it
covered the UN Budget
Committee: UK Independent with
video here.
Then
Guterres had Inner City Press'
UN media accreditation, in
place for ten years, suspended
for weeks and weeks, with
Inner City Press having to
report on the UN from the
sidewalk. CJR
here.
On August
17 Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison Smale
issued an order
withdrawing Inner City Press'
accreditation, without any
hearing and no appeal. She
never answered UN Special
Rapporteur David Kaye's question
about an appeals process.
There is none, and the UN
unlike the US government is
not immune from lawsuit.
The UN has
gone further, putting Inner
City Press on a non -public list
of people banned from all UN
premises for life. Guterres
even had his Security get Park
East Synagogue head of
security Shay Amir try
to oust Inner City Press from
his speech on tolerance on
October 31.
So while
the outrage at the White House
action on Acosta grows, as it
should (the Free
UN Coalition for Access
opposes it, like the arrest of
journalists in Cameroon),
why is the UN given a free
pass to rough up and ban a
journalist? Is there a right
or principle of free press or
isn't there? It has been
raised - watch this site.
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