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Rapist UN Ambassador Fled To South Sudan As US Spox Patel Stonewalls As on Case v Blinken

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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SDNY / UN GATE, August 30 – After a UN Ambassador from South Sudan raped a woman in upper Manhattan then was released, citing his UN diplomatic immunity, Inner City Press at noon on August 23 asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming for

"UN comment on South Sudan dip evading rape charge (mis)using diplomatic immunity? He followed victim into her Manhattan apartment about noon, and then raped her twice. #NoonBriefing."

   Two days later, no direct answer at all. The UN cynically passed the entirety of the buck to the US State Department - which now refuses to answer, after it allowed the rapist diplomat to leave the United States.   Other media asked the South Sudan Mission (Inner City Press published a list of its UN Ambassador here, including the rapist Charles Dickens Imene Oliha).

On August 24, the US State Department dodged or bought time. On August 25, Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel, while taking two separate questions from Voice of America, refused to take this Press question, about what the State Department is in fact doing to attempt to ensure that this rapist diplomat doesn't just leave the US.

(Also, no one asked nor was the Press questions taken about UN Bachelet punting on Xinjiang - but that's another story).

On August 29, with the rapist UN ambassador already back in South Sudan, Patel got worse, taking three questions from VOA, two from the same correspondent about Taiwan, another about South Korea. Inner City Press' question about the Administration's seemingly incoherent policy on $3.5 billion ostensibly meant for 9/11 victims went unanswered - and UN censorship unaddressed.

On August 30, it was like groundhog day: Vedant Patel took the same questions, or logistical questions about travel plans, but nothing about the escaped rapist diplomat, the 9/11 victims stiffed, UN Bachelet's sell out of the Uighurs, or a discrimination case against Antony Blinken on which Inner City Press has exclusively reported here. We'll have more on this.

Again, this is on Antonio Guterres, who has covered up dozens of rapes, and bans the Press that asks about it.

He is inviting many more rapists to New York City in September for the UN General Assembly week; his head of communication or propaganda Melissa Fleming has not answered a letter from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel seeking re-admission of Inner City Press to cover it, and this. Watch this site. 

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