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US Blinken on Belarus' Pratasevich Grab As
Hypocrites Inactive on SG Guterres' Press
Ban
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video Song
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE, June 21
– Right after dissident
blogger Pratasevich was
grabbed off a Ryan Air flight
forced to land in Belarus,
many including the US spoke.
But for more than
a full day, nothing from
Antonio Guterres, the UN
Secretary General who rarely
takes questions and even had
the Press which asked him
about the mass killings in
Cameroon thrown
out of the UN. Alert here;
new Belarus Blues song here.
Now on June 21
Antony Blinken of the US Staet
Department, which has yet to
act on Guterres banning
Inner City Press now for
1084 days amid its questions,
this: "The United States has
taken action against dozens of
Belarusian individuals and
entities in response to last
month's forced diversion of a
commercial Ryanair flight
between two European Union
member states and the
politically motivated arrest
of journalist Raman
Pratasevich and Sofiya
Sapega.... Since the
fraudulent August 9, 2020
election, the State Department
has designated 155 Belarusian
and Russian nationals under PP
8015. The United States
continues to support
international efforts to
investigate electoral
irregularities in the 2020
Belarusian Presidential
election and the violent
crackdown and abuses that
ensued. We stand with
the people of Belarus in
support of their fundamental
freedoms."
Earlier
there was this, "There can be
no Press Freedom when there is
fear. [See see this
and this
at UN.]
Signed,
Co-chairs of the UN Group of
Friends for the Protection of
Journalists, Ambassadors,
Permanent Representatives of
Greece, France and
Lithuania
Annex:
Co-signatories members of the
Group of Friends (in
alphabetical order): Austria,
Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa
Rica, Ghana, Latvia, Republic
of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland,
the UK, USA, Uruguay."
On May 28,
Guterres' UN Press Briefing
Room hosted a press
conference, from which Inner
City Press was banned, in
which the grabbing of
Pratasevich was called fake
news, in response to questions
from state media.
Inner City
Press has asked then incoming
UNSC president for June Estonia
for access, to which there has
been no response (ACT is just
an act) - and it and the Free
UN Coalition for Access
(FUNCA) will report on all
results.
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