| As Sex Trafficking Debated In UN
Which Bans Press It Covers TVPA Sleight of
Hand in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
UN GATE / SDNY,
Dec 18 –
Warren Bryant was charged with
sex trafficking,
transportation for
prostitution and narcotics
conspiracy in January 2019 by
the US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
But
on November 12 when Warren
Bryant came before SDNY Judge
Analisa Torres with Inner City
Press the only media in the
gallery, as it had been on
Bryant's previous appearance,
the US Attorney had made a
plea agreement only on
narcotics conspiracy, for 10
years imprisonment, with the
sex trafficking charges
dropped. The
case is US v.
Bryant,
19-cr-00006
(Torres).
It gave rise to an obvious
question: if victims are
supposed to be informed,
particularly under the U.S.
Trafficking Victims Protection
Act, what happens if the US
Attorney simply drops the
trafficking charges? Do the
victims get notice of this
important decision? It does
not appear so.
Now this
from within the UN from which
Inner City Press is banned,
now for the 533rd day, by UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres who refuses to answer
even written questions about
child sexual abuse by his
"peacekeepers," much of it
constituting trafficking:
"Ambassador Kelly Craft, U.S.
Permanent Representative to
the United Nations, hosted a
panel discussion today on
trafficking in persons to
illustrate the importance of
documentation as a tool for
combating modern slavery. She
reaffirmed the responsibility
of the international community
to redouble its efforts to
prevent trafficking in
persons, protect victims of
trafficking, and hold
perpetrators to
account.
The
briefing featured four
panelists, including U.S.
Ambassador-at-Large John
Cotton Richmond, head of the
U.S. Department of State’s
Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons, Simone
Monasebian, Representative of
the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) New York, and
Davina Durgana, PhD, Senior
Statistician for the Walk Free
Initiative of the Minderoo
Foundation. The panelists were
joined by Bukola Love Oriola,
a member of the U.S. Advisory
Council on Human
Trafficking.
Panelists briefed on the
findings in their recent
reports, as well as their
methodologies and how
reporting can be used to
support international efforts
to combat human trafficking
and strengthen calls on
governments to broaden their
efforts in this regard.
Members and incoming members
of the UN Security Council
responded with comments and
questions."
But
Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming answer none of banned
Inner City Press' questions.
With
the United
States holding
the presidency
of the UN
Security
Council for
December,
Ambassador
Kelly Craft
held a press
conference on
December 6.
There were ten
questions. Not
a single one
was on
anything in
Africa, which
is 60% of the
Security
Council's
agenda.
This comes
after UNSG Antonio Guterres
had Inner City Press roughed
up and banned, now 522, for
asking about his failure on
Cameroon, including his UN
Budget Committee deal with
Paul Biya and his Ambassador
Tommo Monthe who chaired the
committee: silence on the
slaughter of Anglophones in
exchange for favors in the UN
Budget Committee.
Guterres
wastes taxpayers' money on
repeated flights to his real
home in Lisbon, and refuses to
disclose them or his links to
UN briber CEFC China Energy.
In the
press conference Inner City
Press was banned from, the US
Mission spokesman follow a
corrupt UN "tradition" and
automatically gave the first
question to a group which has
Chinese state media on its
board, and used its questions
to pressure Craft to help them
raise money.
Then came a
series of repetitive and lame
questions about North Korea,
an issue on which the UN will
never do anything,
particularly with Guterres in
the pocket of China and CEFC
China Energy. Nor will
Guterres do anything, or even
answer questions on, Honduras
another state exposed in the
SDNY court Inner City Press
now covers and about it would
have asked Craft. She at least
mentioned Colombia.... Inner
City Press will continue to
cover both beats - the UN from
outside the gate, given
Guterres' censorship and
USUN's inaction. Watch this
site.
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