UN
Security Blocks Inner City Press
From 7 - 7:55 pm After Trump,
Escorts It To Get Laptop and
Leave
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video
UNITED NATIONS,
May 23 – After Inner City
Press asked UN Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric at noon on
May 23 questions about
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres' failure to even
start an audit of the Patrick
Ho / China Energy Fund
Committee UN bribery case pending
in the US District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, and his role in the cover up
of sexual harassment by the
International Atomic Energy
Agency's deputy in charge of
the Iran Deal, it was stopped
from re-entering the UN from 7
pm until 7:55 pm.
Then
it was escorted in by a UN
Security officer who stood
over it as it packed up the
laptop on which it was writing
up the Spokesman's evasive
answers.
Since the
UN evicted Inner City Press
from its long time UN work
space for pursuing the first
UN bribery case, that of Ng
Lap Seng, John Ashe and Chau
Chak Wing, it has been under a
7 pm curfew. This has been
maintained, without
explanation or response to
5000+ signature petition
by Guterres' “Global
Communicator” Alison Smale.
Inner City Press must get back
by that time to be allowed in.
But
on May 23, First Avenue all
around the UN was locked down
for the visit of US President
Donald Trump. Inner City Press
would have been back by 6:45
pm but it was blocked for 15
minutes at 50th Street and
First Avenue. Tweeted
Periscope video here.
Coming the other way, just
before the blockage, was UN
official Hua Jiang, a Smale
subordinate who has defended
the restrictions on Inner City
Press. At 7:01 pm, the UN's
gate on 46st was still open.
But a UN Security officer told
Inner City Press, Go to 42nd
Street entrance, they'll let
you in no problem.
They did
not. One officer said, No way
we're letting you in. Another,
characterizing it as a favor,
called the Department of
Safety and Security office.
Whoever first answered there
said No, do no let him in.
Inner City Press has
previously reported on DSS
chief Drennan “burying” a
report about Irina Bokova -
who has Inner City Press
exclusively reported this week
has quietly been retained on a
“dollar a year” contract with
immunity by UNESCO.
Inner City Press began a short
Periscope broadcast.
The Under Secretary General
for Sexual Violence in
Conflict expressed sympathy.
The Under Secretary General
for General Assembly and
Conference Management
Catherine Polland laughed. A
corporate wire service
journalist said she would go
get Inner City Press' laptop
but she was late to an event.
A sometimes Morocco state
media journalist, sometime UN
staff member, expressed
sympathy, but...
Inner City
Press' phone battery went
critically low and it ended
the Periscope broadcast. The
UN Security officers let into
the building people without
checking their IDs, for some
event. After fifty minutes
another officer came. He would
escort Inner City Press in and
stand over it while it
collected its computer, and
then ensure that it left.
Inner City Press complied, set
up in the park across from the
UN and wrote this article.
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