UNITED NATIONS
GATE, April
15
– 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 April
15 more
than three
hours
before the UN
noon briefing, Inner
City Press submitted
719 questions: "There
are more than 400+
questions UNanswered.
And Monday Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept 18, Wed
Sept 19 and Thurs
and Fri Sept 21, that
whole week, no questions
answered. Nor Sept 25,
nor 28th - nor October 2
nor 3. While
appreciating and using
what was sent on March
28 in partial request to
Inner City Press'
questions about the UN
bribery sentence of
Patrick Ho of CEFC and
CEFC's 2018 attempt to
buy the oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid the SG, 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. 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 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19 nor 20 nor
21 nor 22 nor 25 nor 26
nor 27 nor March 1 - 27
(!) And
now April
1, 3-12.
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.
April
15-1: On South
Africa, what is the SG's
comment and action if
any on the violence
against foreign
nationals on the rise
amid political tensions
in the lead-up to
national elections
scheduled for May 8?
Violence by South
Africans against foreign
nationals erupted in the
eastern eThekwini
municipality, one of
South Africa’s most
heavily populated areas,
which includes the city
of Durban and
surrounding towns. Over
the following days,
violence occurred in
Durban in the Burnwood
Informal Settlement
(Municipal wards 25 and
26), near the Durban
dock yards at South
Coast and Maydon Wharf
roads, in Durban’s
Springfield
neighborhood, and in
Durban’s Philani
neighborhood. The
police have yet to make
any arrests following
these attacks, in which
some foreign nationals
were killed and several
others seriously
injured. Hundreds of
foreign nationals sought
shelter at police
stations or other
places, as their homes,
trucks, and other
belongings were looted
or destroyed?
April
15-2: On South Sudan,
please state what the SG
and UN have done about
the killing of
journalist Jonathan
Allen 18 months ago?
What is the SG's comment
on that Two
international experts
who saw the report said
that while they can’t
comment on intent, the
consistency of the
trajectory of the wounds
raise questions about
whether his death was
accidental. “Shots
were intentionally fired
in this direction, not
ricochet, not an
accidental wide spray of
shots but rather a
series of shots all in a
line,” said an expert
neuropathologist, who
didn’t want to be
named. A forensic
pathologist who read the
autopsy report said that
it is not conclusive.
Allen may have been
killed in the crossfire
- in the wrong place at
the wrong time - but
also, “due to the bullet
patterns particularly
those in the neck and
head, we also can not
exclude the
extrajudicial execution
argument?
April
15-3: On Burundi, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on the six
schoolgirls and one boy,
arrested last month for
doodling on the
Burundian president’s
photo and charged with
“insulting the head of
state" and expelled them
permanently from the
school, now facing
charges of “insulting
the head of
state"?
April
15-4: One press freedom
and Peru, what is the
SG's comment and action
if any on that ongoing
criminal defamation case
in Peru against two
journalists by an
archbishop? Both Salinas
and Ugaz face criminal
charges of aggravated
defamation from
Archbishop Jose Antonio
Eguren Anselmi of Piura,
Peru, who made
complaints against both
last year over articles
and interviews they
either published or were
affiliated with
asserting that he was
guilty of psychological
abuse and cover-up
within the Sodalitium
Christianae Vitae (SCV),
as well as linking him
to a land trafficking
scandal in Piura.
The SCV has come under
fire after Salinas and
Ugaz in 2015 co-authored
a book titled, Half
Monks, Half Soldiers
detailing years of
physical, psychological
and sexual abuses within
the community
perpetrated by the
group’s founder, layman
Luis Fernando Figari,
who was sanctioned by
the Vatican in 2017, and
other high-ranking
members. On April
8, Salinas was found
guilty and sentenced to
a 1-year suspended
prison term and a fine
of $24,000. What is each
of yours - particularly
the SG's - response to
the letter written and
sent by Burundi activist
Manisha Lievin? AGAIN,
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.
April
12-1: On Cameroon, what
is the comment and
action of the SG, beyond
the golden statue, on
that Aafarmer believed
to be in his fourties
has been attacked by
elements of the Cameroon
defence forces. The
incident occurred at the
Mile 16 neigbourhood in
Buea, South West Region
MMI has learnt. “I was
in the house waiting for
someone to come collect
oil I brought from the
farm the previous day
when I saw the door
forced open. I was asked
if I live here. I
answered with a yes, and
I was asked to show the
hideouts of Ambazonian
fighters. I told them I
don’t know the people
they are asking after
and that I’m just a
farmer. They accused me
of knowing them but I
told them I could only
recognise them as
soldiers because I can
see from their outfits
(uniforms). As I
insisted I don’t know
the whereabout of those
they are searching for,
they started beating me.
One of them proposed I
should be killed and the
other refused. They took
my machete and
repeatedly cut me on
different parts on my
body. They broke my
doors and the doors of a
neighbour who had
died?
April 10-1: On
Somalia and UN sexual
abusers, what is the
SG's comment and
particularly action on
the UNDT finding that
a convicted rapist was
sent by the UN to
Somalia? What is the
SG's comment to the
Somalia people,
particularly women? As
reported today by
Inner City Press,
citing UNDT/2019/045,
it was UNDT itself
which said it has
confirmed that the
person UNICEF sent to
Somalia was "was
imprisoned at
Woodbourne
Correctional Facility
in New York State,
United States of
America, following a
conviction on charges
of rape in the first
degree; unlawful
imprisonment in the
first degree; burglary
in the second degree
and assault in the
second degree." Who
will be held
accountable?
April 10-2: On
Cameroon, what is SG
Guterres' comment and
action if any after
the golden statue on
that on 4 April 2019
Cameroonian soldiers,
gendarmes, and members
of the Rapid
Intervention Brigade
(BIR) carried out a
deadly attack on the
North-West region
village of Meluf,
killing at least five
civilian men,
including one with a
mental disability, and
wounded one
woman?Three of the
bodies were later
found mutilated,
including one that had
been
decapitated.
April
4-2: On UN bribery and
censorship, what now is
the SG's comment and
response to the April
3article in Serbia about
CEFC which Mr Guterres
has refused to audit -
and about his refusal to
answer, and censorship
of Press "Gutereš had
and had his own
financial link with the
CEFC, through the
Gulbenkian Foundation.
On the orders of
Guteres, on June 22 and
July 3, 2018, the
security came to me, and
I was banned from
reporting from the UN.
In fact, Gutereš took
advantage of his
security from the UN to
distance me from his
speech at the Park East
Synagogue, and recently
physically stopped me
while he entered the
mosque in 96th
Street" and now this
- "Patrick
Ho, a businessman who
was sentenced to three
years in prison for his
role in the world's
corrupting affair,
claims investigative
journalist Matthew
Russell Li in the
documentary "Hong Kong
Connection, Patrick Ho's
List." Li, in a
documentary broadcast on
the Hong Kong
Radio-Television portal,
revealed Jeremic's role
in this affair, a tens
of millions of dollars,
as well as his private
dilutes, which he made
while serving as the
chairman of the United
Nations General
Assembly. -
Jeremic's testimony at
the Ho trial was
problematic because he
turned out to be working
for "CEFC Energy" (a
Chinese conglomerate led
by Ho, prim. Aut.) While
serving as the chairman
of the UN General
Assembly. He took their
money, exchanged e-mails
with them ... He did
many things. It is
surprising to me that
the focus of the
prosecution was at Ho.
The prosecutors used his
testimony to show how Ho
established a
relationship, and in
fact what Jeremic was
doing might be worse for
the public - Li
said.
Investigative reporters
also uncovered the flows
of money flowing to
Jeremic's accounts. Hoov
CEFC paid Jeremic as a
consultant a total of $
5.3 million. It turns
out that some companies
that paid this money are
completely phantom,
because they do not
exist at the registered
addresses at all."
As always, what is the
process of appealing or
getting a hearing on the
now 274 day ban amid
this questions, or
process to reapply which
was denied summarily on
2 January 2019? How is
this not
censorship?) and
the translated 22 minute
documentary about
Patrick Ho and CEFC's
bribes through the UN
including Mr. Guterres'
refusal to answer Inner
City Press' question on
it on 5 December 2018,
and that Inner City
Press for allegedly not
complying with interview
"rules" has been
disqualified from
reporting within the
UN? Again,
the sentencing
memorandum includes
quotes from his e-mails
regarding aiming to
violate sanctions and
deal in arms not only to
Chad but also South
Sudan, Libya &
Qatar. What is the SG's
comment and action?
Again, why has no audit
even been begun of CEFC,
at least like the one
Mr. Guterres'
predecessor did of Ng
Lap Seng's Sun Kian Ip
Foundation? Why did Mr
Guterres omit payments
from Gulbenkian
Foundation, which sought
to sell its oil company
Partex to CEFC China
Energy, from his public
financial disclosure
covering 2016? Where are
the more recent public
financial disclosures -
has Mr. Guterres ended
that program? Why?
March
25-5: On your /
Spokesperson
Dujarric's
recent podcast
interview,
please
immediately
explain what was
meant by a
relationship
with journalists
of "mutually
assured
destruction" -
and why the
podcast links
are mostly
404/no longer
online.
March
25-8: On the
SG's March 22
appearance on
96th Street,
please
immediately
provide the name
of the UN DSS
officer who
spoke to NYPD on
96th Street to
get them to
restraint in
advance Inner
City Press while
UN Photo and
others like AP
walked freely,
the basis for
this censorship
and any and all
records
regarding
it.
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