UNITED NATIONS
GATE, February 22
– Inner City Press on July 5
was banned from entering the
UN, the day after it filed a
criminal complaint against
UN Security for physically
removing it from covering
the meeting about the UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres' $6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget, as
witnessed and essentially
cheered on by senior UN
official Christian Saunders,
tearing its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally twisting his
arm and slamming shut and
damaging his laptop. On
August 17, Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison Smale
issued a letter banning
Inner City Press from the UN
- for life. With no due
process. She and Guterres
have put the UN in the US
Press Freedom Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN would
answer Press questions to
the Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his Office; Dujarric said the same on
camera.
On February 22 two hours before a Dujarric
briefing he began 20
minutes late with his friends
where he
was
not asked about
UN rapes in CAR
nor Senator
Marco
Rubio's critique of
Guterres, while
refusing to answer
Inner City Press'
questions, Inner
City Press submitted 549 questions
"There are more than 300+
questions UNanswered.
While appreciating
and using what was sent on
January 29 after it was
read out in the briefing
room, no answers on Dec 17
or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 -
another FIVE days in a
row, even as SG's direct
conflicts of interest and
failure to disclose
emerge, and a newest low.
While
appreciating the
lone partial
response to Question
Feb 8-8, nothing on
Dec 24 or Dec 26 or
Dec 27 or Dec 28, or
January 2, 3 or 4 or
8 or 9 or 10 or 11
or 14 or 15 or 16 or
17 or 18 or 21 or 22
or 23 or 24 or 25 or
28 - that was
FIFTEEN week-days in
a row, apparently
under orders, then a
simple post-facto
answer. Now what? No
answers on January
30 nor 31 nor
February 1 nor 4 nor
5 nor 6 nor 7 nor 11
nor 12 nor 13 nor 14
or 15 nor 18 nor 19
nor 20 nor 21. No
answers at all
during those four
days of the US v Ho
trial showing
corruption in the UN
says it all. This
ban is just
censorship - and
Inner City Press
must be allowed back
into the noon
briefing to ask its
questions in person
and follow up on
them.
February
22-1: On Cameroon,
what are the SG's
comments and actions
if any on that
Opposition leader
Maurice Kamto will
today be summoned by
a military court on
charges which carry
the death penalty,
as the Cameroonian
authorities
intensify their
post-election
crackdown on
critics, Amnesty
International said
today. Kamto,
the president of the
Cameroon Renaissance
Movement (Mouvement
pour la Renaissance
du Cameroun-MRC) is
the first of a group
of 131 people
arbitrarily arrested
last month and
charged by the
military court with
rebellion, hostility
against the
homeland, incitement
to insurrection,
offence against the
president of the
republic, and
destruction of
public buildings and
goods, to be
summoned by an
investigating judge.
They all face the
death penalty?
February
22-2: On Haiti, what
are the SG's
comments and
actions, if any, on
that a police
officer and two bus
drivers were killed
in the capital’s
Martissant
neighborhood on
Wednesday, bringing
to 12 the number of
confirmed fatalities
from weeks of
sometimes violent
protests demanding
that Haitian
President Jovenel
Moise step down?
Again, what is the
SG's comment and
action on
accountability after
the death toll of UN
driving into a
collective taxi has
hit four? "A traffic
accident involving a
United Nations
armored vehicle
killed four people
and injured nine in
Port-au-Prince on
Saturday...The
vehicle of the
United Nations
Mission for Justice
Support in Haiti
(MINUJUSTH) lost the
use of its brakes
while driving in the
capital and collided
with a collective
taxi — known as a
tap-tap — according
to witnesses"
February
22-3: On Libya and
Chad, what are the
comments and actions
if any of the SG and
separately SRSG
Salame on that
Chadian rebels in
southern city of
Murzuq have accused
the forces loyal to
General Khalifa
Haftar of having
targeted civilians
in their offensive
yesterday?
February
22-4: AGAIN, what is
the SG's response to
US Senator Marco
Rubio's criticism
that he is playing
right into Maduro
plans.. When it
comes to democracy
& human rights
UN increasingly
worthless"?
February
22-5: On Morocco,
what are the SG's
comment and actions
if any on that
Moroccan security
forces fired water
cannon at public
school teachers
demonstrating in
Rabat and waded into
crowds with swinging
batons to block
their route to the
royal palace,
injuring dozens of
people.
Several
demonstrations were
held on Wednesday -
marking exactly
eight years after
the birth of a
Moroccan Arab Spring
protest movement
that awakened a
spirit of activism
in this North
African
kingdom.
Police officers
charged protesters,
beating several to
the ground.
Ambulances evacuated
the wounded to
hospitals. The
incidents came as
thousands of public
school teachers took
to the streets of
the Moroccan capital
to protest against
fixed-term contracts
that have been in
force since
2016?
February
22-6: On China, what
is the SG's comment
and actions on that
Taiwan President
Tsai Ing-wen has
sent out a warning
to Asia in the face
of mounting
aggression from
Beijing. Tsai said
the military threat
posed by China was
growing "every day"
in line with a more
assertive foreign
policy under its
President Xi
Jinping. "If it's
Taiwan today, people
should ask who's
next? Any country in
the region -- if it
no longer wants to
submit to the will
of China, they would
face similar
military threats,"
said Tsai...
February
22-7: On Mozambique
and the press
freedom the SG is
set to speak about
in Geneva, what is
his comment and
action if any on
that the Mozambican
government Thursday
of arbitrarily
detaining
journalists covering
the fight against a
jihadist insurgency
in the country's
north. About
half-a dozen
journalists have
been arrested in the
line of duty since
last June, as well
as drivers,
interpreters, and
other crew members.
Two reporters remain
in custody. AGAIN,
please immediately
explain how it is
legitimate to ban
from enter into the
UN the media that
has been asking
about these and
other questions,
with no hearing or
appeal.
February
21-1: What is the
SG's comment and
action on that a
Chinese surveillance
company has been
tracking the
movements of more
than 2.5 million
people in a region
where authorities
have waged a
crackdown on Muslim
minorities, a
researcher has
discovered. Police
checkpoints and
security cameras
have been recording
the location data of
residents of the
Xinjiang region,
according to a Dutch
cybersecurity
expert, who
uncovered an online
database containing
names, photos, ID
card numbers, birth
dates and employment
details of people
monitored? And what
is the SG's comment
and action on that
on WeChat, posts
containing so
called “sensitive
words” –such as
Tiananmen Massacre,
Liu Xiaobo and
Occupy Central,
perhaps CEFC China
Energy – can’t be
posted?
February
21-2: On Yemen and
arms controls /
human rights, what
is the SG's comment
and action if any on
that the Australian
defence department
can’t guarantee that
Canberra-made remote
weapons systems,
that attracted a
taxpayer subsidy,
won’t be used in the
bloody Yemen
conflict?
February
21-3: On Nigeria,
what is the SG and
separately DSG's
comment and action
on that President
Muhammadu Buhari has
ordered
security agents to
kill ballot box
snatchers during the
February 23
presidential and
National Assembly
elections?
February
21-4: On DRC, what
is the SG's comment
and action on that
civil society
organizations from
the two Kivu
provinces have
expressed concern
about the upsurge in
violence and the
multiplication of
Congolese and
foreign armed
groups. They
have asked the
Security Council to
command the United
Nations Mission in
Congo to attack all
armed groups without
distinction,
including those
supported by
governments. What IS
the UN's policy in
treated such
gov-supported
militia?
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