ICP
Asks Zeid's Spox Why Gags
Whistleblower, Guterres Is Asked
to Probe
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 14 – Based on
retaliation against three
separate whistleblowers, UN
High Commissioner for Human
Rights Prince Zeid should be
suspended, it has been
requested of UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres in a
letter
copied to US Senators Bob
Corker and Ben Cardin,
and UN Special Rapporteur David
Kaye, here.
On February
14 in the morning (New York
time) Inner City Press posed
three questions to Zeid's
spokesperson Rupert Colville,
including:
"Hi. Inner City
Press has a few questions it'd
like answers to as soon as
possible:
1) whistleblower Emma Reilly
tells us that “OHCHR now
claims I can't speak because
of the staff rule that 'in no
circumstances should [staff
members] use the media to
further their own interests,
to air their own grievances,
to reveal unauthorized
information or to attempt to
influence their organizations’
policy decisions.' No response
to my email on how this
squares with OHCHR airing
grievances against me by
falsely stating my claims had
been found to be
unsubstantiated.”
Is that in fact OHCHR's
position?
2) In terms of OHCHR calling
things unsubstantiated, on
social media and in a press
release, is OHCHR denying that
the Ambassador of Morocco
financial supported the sale
of Mr Eric Tistounet's book?
3) ....Please state what
happened at the HRC
organizational meeting
yesterday. Please answer these
asap."
Hours
later, and after a UN noon
briefing in which UN deputy
spokesman Farhan Haq called
Inner City Press obsessive and
an "asshole," still not
answer. We'll stay on this.
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