| With UN Guterres In Pakistan
He Refuses To Answer on Censorship and Murder
of Journalist Aziz Memon
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Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 17 – With UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres in
Pakistan, Inner City Press
asked his Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric on February 14 about
the Pakistani social media
regulatory measures that were
recently passed in secret,
empowering the government to
fine or ban social media
platforms over their users’
content.
Dujarric
did not answer the question,
and typically went to Orlando,
Florida.
On February
17, banned Inner City Press
asked Associate Spokesperson
Eri Kaneko, who handled only
two question from those
allowed into the briefing
room, "Again, while SG
Guterres is in Pakistan,
answer Inner City Press'
February 14-10 question, "in
Pakistan, which the SG and 13
others - who? - are visiting,
social media regulatory
measures that were passed in
secret? On January 28,
the federal cabinet approved
the 'Citizens Protection
(Against Online Harm) Rules,
2020,' a set of regulations on
social media content, without
public consultation; the
measures were enacted in
secret and were reported
yesterday by The News
International, an
English-language daily.
A copy of the regulations,
which was leaked online, shows
that the rules empower the
government to fine or ban
social media platforms over
their users’
content."
Again, no answer
at all.
Meanwhile, in
Pakistan with Guterres there:
the murder of journalist Aziz
Memon, who worked for the
privately-owned Sindhi TV
channel KTN News and the
Sindhi-language Daily Kawish
newspaper. He was found
strangled to death in an
irrigation ditch yesterday
near the town of Mehrabpur in
the Naushahro Feroze District
of Sindh province. Memon had
released a video in which he
said officials of the
opposition Pakistan People’s
Party and local police had
threatened him over his
reporting. His reporting
included allegations that
individuals were paid to
attend a widely publicized
2019 “train march,” in which
PPP Chair Bilawal Bhutto
Zardari stopped at train
stations to give speeches.
Journalists in Sindh have been
protesting for months against
what they have called abuse by
police.
Guterres has
banned Inner City Press from
entering the UN for 594 days
as it reports on his mis-use
of public funds, cover up of
CEFC China Energy Fund UN
bribery and failure on
Cameroon and other mass
killings. His UN is
corrupt.
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