UN GATE, Dec 17
– 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
17
before a
noon briefing by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric which he began
after 12:10 pm
while
Guterres
continues his
European
failure tour
next to Italy,
after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1397
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
2-16
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
17-1: On
Rwanda and
"climate
dangers," what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that
authorities in
Rwanda have
begun
demolishing
homes in the
capital Kigali
which they say
are threatened
by "climate
dangers".
Officials say
the
destruction of
hundreds of
houses built
on or near
wetlands is
necessary to
protect people
from flooding
and landslides
after
unusually
heavy rains.
But residents
complain that
they have
received no
compensation
so far.
December
17-2: On
fraud, what is
the UN's
involvement
with,
including DSG
Amina J.
Mohammed
photos with,
the
"Principality
Monte
Agrella," as
reported
exclusively by
Inner City
Press?
December
10/7-3: 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, on top
of the
November 11
case of rape
in Liberia,
and by a
Cameroon
"military
observer" in
Mali,
UNanswered
with Inner
City Press
blocked from
noon briefing
and only 2
questions
inside, the
cases of
sexual
exploitation
and rape
cursorily data
dumped on
November 11 at
10:30 am
including
rapes in
Liberia,
sexual
exploitation
in Sept 2019
in CAR (all
nationalities
undisclosed -
why?), by
Cameroon in
Mali and those
on November 4
and on October
31 at 1:30 pm
as well as
previously
requested
without
response about
the child rape
and sexual
exploitation
by UN
"peacekeepers"
from Cameroon
and South
Africa the UN
cursorily
disclosed on
the afternoon
of October 28
December
17-4: On press
freedom and
Sri Lanka, on
which you have
refused to
answer banned
Inner City
Press'
qustions, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that On
December 6, a
group of men
beat Thusitha
Kumara de
Silva, a
reporter for
the Daily
Mirror and
LankaDeepa
newspapers,
and his wife
with helmets
and sticks
near their
home in
Beruwala,
western Sri
Lanka,
according to
news reports.
On December
10, a group of
men entered
the offices of
the Resa
newspaper and
grabbed Maduka
Thaksala
Fernando, a
journalist at
Resa parent
company Lake
House, by the
neck, dragged
him outside,
and beat him
while telling
him not to
return to the
newspaper.
The attacks,
along with a
spate of
police actions
against
journalists in
Sri Lanka,
followed the
November 18
inauguration
of President
Gotabaya
Rajapaksa
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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