| After UNDT Ordered Inner
City Press To Destroy Evidence of UN Sex Abuse
Now UNAT/2020/1502
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Appeal
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UN GATE, Dec 23 –
How corrupt and unaccountable
is today's United Nations? Now
a UN Appeals Tribunal case has
been docketed, so perhaps
we'll see.
In November
2020 Inner City Press went to
attend and report on a UN
Dispute Tribunal proceeding
about a case of sexual
harassment in the UN, a
proceeding which was announced
as open to the public, as US
court cases are.
But when
Inner City Press signed in and
gave its name, it was
excluded. Later, when it
obtained and published evidenc
presented in the case, a UN
Dispute Tribunal judge ordered
it to destroy the evidence or
be banned from all future
proceedings. Now the UN
Appeals Tribunal has
acknowledged receipt of the
appeal:
Weicheng Lin via
unitednations.onmicrosoft.com
9:39 AM Dear Mr.
Lee, I acknowledge
receipt of your
filing. As you do
not have access to the eFiling
portal, we at the registry
will upload your filing in the
eFiling portal for you and
will forward your filing to
the parties for
comment.
Please refrain from
communicating directly with
the Judges of the Appeals
Tribunal. Under Section
I(E) of our Practice
Direction, which is available
on our website for your
perusal, no party or
representative may contact a
Judge directly. All
correspondence concerning an
appeal must be directed to the
Registry. Thank you for
your
attention,
Weicheng Lin
Registrar United Nations
Appeals Tribunal
Inner City Press
asked, " Is there a case
number assigned?"
Response: "Weicheng Lin via
unitednations.onmicrosoft.com
10:06 AM We will process your
filing in the eFiling Portal
and give it a case
number."
And later on
December 23:
" Case:
UNAT/2020/1502 Dear
Respondents, We received
an Appeal of UNDT Orders 178
(NY/2020) and 179 (NY/2020)
filed by Mr. Lee on 21
December 2020. Mr. Lee
who is not a staff member nor
a party to the case of the
Applicant filed an appeal
against these orders with the
Appeals Tribunal. The
Registrar accepted the
submissions and instructed
that they be transmitted to
the parties in the UNDT
proceedings, and the
Secretary-General for comments
within 30
days.
Thank you and best
regards. United Nations
Appeals Tribunal Registry Room
DC2-2409 New York, New York
10017" Game on.
This while
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres falsely claims to
have zero tolerance for sexual
harassment and abuse, while
himself banning Inner City
Press from UN briefings now
for 904 days.
Inner City
Press is even banned from
submitting questions by WebEx,
on which the International
Monetary Fund for example
answers its questions. The
only difference is Guterres
and his corruption.
On the
morning of December 22 Inner
City Press emailed him and his
spokespeople this question: "After
UNDT purported
to order me to
destroy evidence
of sexual
harassment by UN
staff Padula,
what now are the
responses of SG
Guterres to the
UNAT appeal and
statement that
the UNDT
purported to
order me to
destroy evidence
of sexual
harassment /
abuse within the
UN, of the type
that the UNSG
and his
spokepeople
refuse to answer
about or allow
Inner City Press
into its
briefings to
ask, even by
WebEx which the
IMF, for
example, answers
Inner City
Press' over. All
of this should
be
reversed.
This is a
request that you
acknowledge
receipt and also
provide a case
number. Where is
the response?"
No
answer.
On
December 21 Inner City Press
filed a formal appeal with the
UN Appeals Tribunal, full
filing here
on DocumentCloud
Watch this
site.
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