UN GATE, Jan 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 January
17 before a
lame
Q&A by Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric in
which he again
refused to
answer on
Guterres'
statements in
his closed
meeting with
UN staff in
Geneva,
audio now here,
and
delayed the
promised
January 20 "beginning
of year" press
conference, after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1496
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
1000+
questions
UNanswered. 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.
January
17-1:
Immediately
provide the
if-asked
information
for the report
of UN rape in
Darfur data
dumped to
Conduct and
Discipline
website this
morning, or
explain why
you are
covering up UN
sex abuse even
more than Ban
Ki-moon (who
did provide
the Press with
if-asked
information)
did, and see
below.
January
17-2: On
Mozambique,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that the
Public
Prosecutor's
Office in
Mozambique has
opened a case
against a
former MP of
the country's
main
opposition
party Renamo,
officials
say.
Sandura
Ambosio is
accused of
conspiring to
set up a
self-styled
"Renamo
Military
Junta", a
dissident
group which
denounces
Renamo leader
Ossufo Momade
as a
"traitor".
Mr Ambosio is
currently in
custody. He
denies the
charges.
Renamo and the
Mozambican
government
fought a
bitter
1975-1991
civil war,
with renewed
hostilities
from
2013-16.
Mr Momade and
the Mozambican
government
signed a peace
deal in August
- but the
dissidents
oppose
it.
January
17-3: On
corporate
domination of
the UN under
SG Guterres,
what is his
justification
of the
Strategic
Partnership
Agreement
between WEF
and the UN?
Programmes
Corporate
Power Signed
in June 2019,
the agreement
promises to
‘accelerate
the
implementation
of the 2030
Agenda for
Sustainable
Development’
by deepening
institutional
coordination
and
collaboration
between the UN
and the WEF.
The agreement
grants
transnational
corporations
preferential
and
deferential
access to the
UN System at
the expense of
states and
public
interest
actors.
January
17-4: On
Morocco, what
are the
comments and
action if any
of SG Guterres
on that a man
sentenced to
life in prison
in one of
Morocco’s
best-known
trials for
supposedly
plotting
terrorism, has
been held in
abusive
solitary
detention for
more than
three years.
The mass trial
in which he
was convicted
was marred by
serious rights
violations.
Abdelqader
Belliraj, a
dual Moroccan
and Belgian
citizen, is
serving a life
sentence
largely based
on his and
co-defendants’
“confessions,”
which they
said were
obtained under
police
torture. His
wife told
Human Rights
Watch that
Belliraj has
been deprived
of contact
with inmates
and confined
to his cell 23
hours a day
since
2016
January
17-5: On
Cameroon, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on the new
threats by
Paul Biya's
long time
government
that it will
deal "firmly"
with those
planning to
disrupt the 9
February
elections?
There is
already a
heavy security
in the
Anglophone
regions - with
800 more
military
police
officers being
sent to secure
two towns in
the North-West
and South-West
provinces.
Cameroonians
are due to
elect MPs and
municipal
councillors.
Territorial
Administration
Minister Paul
Atanga Nji
urged people
to vote and
warned that
the security
agencies would
deal firmly
with those who
sabotaged the
polls...
January
17-6: On
"UN75," please
immediately
state how the
UN selected
Vox to partner
with: "To
inspire and
inform the
dialogues, the
UN is also
partnering
with Vox
Media’s brand
studio, Vox
Creative, to
create a video
informed by
interviews
with 38 people
from around
the world,
sharing their
experiences
and opinions
related to
important
global issues,
to be launched
on 6 January."
See
https://www.thedrum.com/creative-works/project/vox-creative-united-nations-shaping-our-future-together
stating
"Client:
United
Nations."
January
17-7: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - as
Inner City
press asked in
writing in
2019 without
response, this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
if-asked
information
for the report
of UN rape in
Darfur data
dumped to
Conduct and
Discipline
website on the
morning of
January 17 and
the "if asked"
information
about the two
new cases of
sexual
exploitation
in CAR by
Cameroonian UN
"Police" that
were put
online after 5
pm on December
30 (a day when
you refused to
answer 7
questions
including on
previous UN
rapes), and
the (Dec 19)
rape 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
(!)
January
17-8: 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 has now
publishing
more of it?
Please explain
SG Guterres'
statement that
interns should
not (ever) be
paid, and how
this is not
create unfair
advantage for
the most
affluent?
January
17-9: As
previously and
repeated
asked, where
has UNSG
Antonio
Guterres been
for the past
week(s), and
how much
public money
has he
spent?
January
17-10: On
press freedom
and Burundi,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that a
Burundian
radio
journalist,
who reported
on misuse of
public funds
in the
country. has
been
arrested.
Blaise Pascal
Kararumiye was
arrested on
Thursday, his
employer Radio
Isanganiro
told the
BBC. The
authorities
have not
disclosed the
charges
against the
journalist and
he was
interrogated
without a
lawyer,
station
director
Sylvere
Ntakarutimana
added.
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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