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North Korea SDNY Afghan MTN UN Sex Abuse
Cameroon Honduras Town Hall Burundi Fleming
Bans Press 900+ UNanswered
UN GATE, Dec 30
– 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 30December in
place of what would
have been a
noon briefing by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric
except he was
once again too
lazy, after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1441
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
2-20
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
30-1: On North
Korea / DPRK,
what are the
comments and
action if any
of SG Guterres
on (1) this
afternoon's
release on
bail of Virgil
Griffith for
attending a
crypto
currency
conference in
Pyongyang in
April 2019;
(2) SG
Guterres'
"exclusive"
statement to
Capitalist
Tool
publication
Forbes about
blockchain and
why it was not
put on the
UN's website
(provide it
now) and (3)
this, by the
UN: "The
United Nations
Green Climate
Fund (GCF)
this week
approved its
first round of
funding for a
project aimed
at helping
North Korea
deal with
climate
change, the
agency’s
website
indicated on
Thursday.
The program,
titled
“Readiness and
Preparatory
Support for
Capacity
Building of
NDA (National
Designated
Authorities)
and
establishment
of a National
Strategy
Framework for
engagement
with GCF in
the DPRK,”
will be
implemented
through the UN
Food and
Agriculture
Organization
(FAO), to
which GCF will
be providing
the funding."
What steps
have these UN
bodies take
with regard to
sanctions on
DPRK?
December
30-2: On
terror funding
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
his USG for
counter
terrorism on
that Africa's
largest mobile
operator MTN
says it is
reviewing
allegations
that it paid
protection
money to
militant
Islamist
groups in
Afghanistan.
The
allegations,
made in a
legal
complaint
filed in a US
federal court
on Friday, say
the firm
violated US
anti-terrorism
laws. It
was filed on
behalf of
families of US
citizens
killed in
attacks in
Afghanistan.
Five other
companies were
also named in
the
filing.
The complaint
alleges MTN
paid bribes to
al-Qaida and
the Taliban to
avoid having
to invest in
in expensive
security for
their
transmission
towers.
The alleged
payments
helped finance
a Taliban-led
insurgency
that led to
the attacks in
Afghanistan
between 2009
and 2017, the
accusations
say.
December
30-3: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - as I
asked at 4 pm
on December 20
without
response, this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about the new
(Dec 19)r ape
case by a UN
Volunteer in
DRC in June
2019 - what
nationality?
What's been
done for the
victim(s)? and
the 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
(!)
December
30-4: On SG
Guterres' Town
Hall in
Geneva, on
which you
refused Inner
City Press'
Dec 20
question, what
is your
summary of
what SG
Guterres said
given that
Inner City
Press will be
publishing
more of it?
December
30-5: As
previously and
repeated
asked, where
IS UNSG
Antonio
Guterres, and
how much
public money
is he
spending?
December
30-6: On press
freedom and
Burundi, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
of USG Melissa
Fleming on
that the
Burundian
public
prosecution
now requests a
15 year-jail
against the
four Iwacu
journalists
and their
driver,
accused of
"complicity in
the breach of
the State's
internal
security"?
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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