UN GATE, Dec 13
– Inner
City Press on 5 July
2018 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' Department
of Global
Communication issued
a letter banning
Inner City Press
from the UN - for
life. With no due
process.
Guterres has
put the UN in the US
Press Freedom Tracker,
here.
The
head of the UN
Department
of Global
Communications
said,
again, that the UN
would answer Press
questions to the
Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his
Office;
Dujarric said
the same on
camera.
On December
13
before a
noon briefing not
by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric but his
Deputy Farhan
Haq who
dodged a
question about
UN Human
Rights
retaliation at
the end, after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1394
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
900+
questions
UNanswered. Just
recently,
Nov 1-11, 13-29, Dec
2-12
many
questions.
No answers at
all during the
four days of
the US v Ho
trial showing
corruption in
the UN says it
all; no
answers during
the Honduras
narco-president
trial while UN
bragged
about taking his
money, nor on
OneCoin.
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.
December
13-1: On
Algeria, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that a
record six in
10 Algerians
abstained from
voting in the
country's
presidential
election. The
electoral
authority
chief Mohamed
Charfi
announced on
national
television
that under 40%
of registered
voters cast a
ballot on
Thursday.
The turnout
was the lowest
rate for a
multi-party
election in
the country's
history.
Thousands of
people took to
the streets of
the capital,
Algiers, to
protest
against
Thursday's
residential
election.
They are
demanding the
sweeping away
of Algeria's
entire
political
establishment.
All five
presidential
candidates
standing in
the election
were closely
linked with
the rule of
ex-President
Abdelaziz
Bouteflika.
December
13-2: On the
UN ousting
civil society
members from
COP25, fully
explain that
hundreds of
other
observers
ejected from
the talks.
Jennifer
Morgan, who
has been
attending the
troubled UN
negotiations
for 25 years,
said the
expulsion was
without
precedent.
Protesters
said they were
"pushed,
bullied and
touched
without
consent" --
and Guterres'
ongoing ban on
Inner City
Press, now 528
days, with no
appeal process
or pathway to
return to ask
questions in
person.
December
13-3: As
complained to
banned Inner
City Press by
staff,
immediately
confirm or
deny that
given "hot
desking," "
Staff are now
also told they
cannot have
conversations
at their desk
spaces because
it disturbs
their
neighboring
colleagues" -
and why this
is being
extended to
Geneva.
December
13-4: Also,
please
immediate
state the
status of the
"recruitment"
in the
Security
Council
Affairs
Division of
Nils
Schmieder,
about which
staff complain
of
irregularities
and
favoritism.
December
13-5: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - this
is another
request that
you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about the new
(Dec 9) sex
abuse cases in
CAR by Gabon,
DRC and
Morocco UN
"peacekeepers,
and the Dec
g about
the Office of
the Special
Envoy for the
Sahel, and the
two more
November 26, 3
pm cases of
sexual
exploitation
in CAR by
Cameroon
troops in
September 2019
(!) and 2018,
and those of
November 21
from 2017 and
2016, released
an hour before
UNSG Guterres
met Cameroon
FM, without
readout or
access or even
response to
request for
access
December
13-6: On
freedom of
express,
political and
otherwise, in
Cameroon, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that in
Cameroon,
Bishop Abraham
Kome of
Bafang, the
president of
the bishops’
conference,
said freedom
of political
expression has
been
significantly
limited.
“We have seen
the difficulty
with which
political
parties have
to manifest.
We see - and I
say this with
a lot of
emotion
November
27-4: On fraud
and now Dubai,
now that the
OneCoin trial
in SDNY has
ended with a
guilty
verdict, and
the links to
Venezuela and
PDVSA, as well
as role of
Dubai and
Sheikh
Mohammed bin
Rashid al
Maktoum along
with Amer
Abdulaziz of
Phoenix
thoroughbred
(with other UN
connections)
are being
exclusively
reported by
Inner City
Press while UN
has refused to
answer on it
and on
UN-linked
World Sports
Alliance
IgoBit and
even Carlos
Garcia's use
of the UN for
a fraudulent
coin, now
immediately
answer this
Inner City
Press two week
old questions:
November 8-5:
Again, given
the increase
about of fraud
with which the
UN is
surrounded /
involved in
under SG
Guterres, now
belatedly
answer this
Inner City
Press question
now that
UN-linked
World Sports
Alliance Saint
Clair has been
formally
indicted in
the SDNY, and
belatedly
comment on the
global
implications
of the related
OneCoin fraud
being shown in
SDNY trial:
"October 24-1
November
19-1: On
Honduras on
which SG
Guterres never
answered Inner
City Press'
questions
after
conviction of
presidential
brother Tony
Hernandez and
the proof JOH
took El Chapo
funds, beyond
the UN
thanking
Honduras for
$50,000, what
now is
Guterres'
comment on the
assassination
of Josue David
Caceres
Aguilar, the
son of another
witness of
JOH's
corruption
Miguel Anulfo
Valle? And
again, where
is the report
or what was
the read-out
of the 4
person panel
Guterres sent
to Honduras
after JOH's
dubious
electoral
win?
September
4-8:
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denial.
And a demand
for answer to
these
questions,
which MALU has
declined to
answer:
Who made the
decision?
Where is the
list of those
accredited by
[MALU]?
What and to
whom is the
process of
appeal?
September
3-19: On press
freedom and
Cameroon, on
which you
refused to
answer on
August 13
despite saying
the office was
staffed and
answering, now
more specific:
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any, post
golden statue,
to that Paul
Atanga Nji,
territorial
administration
minister, says
Cameroon's
journalists
are becoming
highly
unpatriotic.
"They have one
main
objective,
just to
sabotage
government
action, to
promote
secessionist
tendencies,"
said Nji. "I
urge them to
be
responsible.
Those who do
not want to
respect the
laws will be
booked as
being
recalcitrant
and will be
treated as
such"... Now
that the US
Court of
Appeals for
the Second
Circuit has
ruled against
public
officials
blocking
critics on
Twitter even
if the
official
claims their
account is
private [and AOC
unblocking Dov
Hikind],
what is the
justification
for UNSG
Spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric, with
the UN flag in
his profile
photo and
Guterres
promoting
content,
blocking Inner
City Press?
What is SG
Guterres'
response /
reaction to UN
DSS and
Guterres'
actions on
Inner City
Press being
listed in the
U.S. Press
Freedom
Tracker, here.
In the UN,
what has the
accountability
been for Lt
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
those those
refused on
camera to give
their names?
What is each
of yours -
particularly
the SG's -
response to
the letter
written and
sent by
Burundi
activist
Manisha
Lievin?
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denied,
and since
SGcentral, the
SG's chief of
staff and
Deputy SG and
USG Fleming
have not even
responded...
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 - and
respond that
Inner City
Press on
August 24
applied like
100s or 1000s
of others to
cover the
upcoming UNGA
high level
week,
including now
formally
offering to
answer any
quesions the
UN / DSS might
have, having
been vetted
and accredited
elsewhere
since, as both
USG DSS
Michaud and
MALU have
formally been
timely
informed --
and how it is
possible that
a media that
closely covers
and uncovers
the UN could
be denied
entry, other
than (SG)
censorship.
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