| UN Cover Up After Told Inner
City Press To Destroy Evidence of UN Sex Abuse
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Appeal
UN GATE, Jan 12 –
How corrupt and unaccountable
is today's United Nations?
Now
in 2025, with SG Antonio
Guterres still banning Inner
City Press after it asked
about his personal finances,
he is covering up a statement
in his internal "justice"
system from which, even
virtually, he had Inner City
Press banned for reporting.
The
Sophocleas case involves a D-1
level director who, instead of
being fired for sexual
harassment, was only demoted
one step in grade and deemed
ineligible for promotion for 3
years. An Appeal Tribunal case
was filed by the victim,
challenging Guterres' refusal
to even tell her what sanction
had been imposed. Clearly, the
case database should be
disclosed - or leaked...
Back in
November 2020 Inner City Press
went to attend and report on a
UN Dispute Tribunal proceeding
about a case of sexual
harassment in the UN, a
proceeding which was announced
as open to the public, as US
court cases are.
But when
Inner City Press signed in and
gave its name, it was
excluded. Later, when it
obtained and published
evidence presented in the
case, a UN Dispute Tribunal
judge ordered it to destroy
the evidence or be banned from
all future proceedings.
This while
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres falsely claims to
have zero tolerance for sexual
harassment and abuse, while
himself banning Inner City
Press from UN briefings now
for 924 days. Now on this
record he wants a second term,
another five years.
On
December 21 Inner City Press
filed a formal appeal with the
UN Appeals Tribunal, full
filing here
on DocumentCloud.
On January 12, a
related complaint was filed
with the UNDT Registrar:
"while I respect Mr. Shehabi's
desire to act in the best
interests of his client, his
motion of 5 November is not
only outrageous, it flies in
the face of everything the
Secretary-General has ever
said - to the member states,
the media and the public -
about the U.N. having 'zero
tolerance' for sexual
misconduct. The fact
that Judge Adda actually
granted this ridiculous motion
is another matter altogether,
but that does not detract form
the fact that the purpose of
anonymity is to protect the
victims of misconduct; it is
not to protect the identity or
the reputation of the
offenders like Mr. Padula. To
do so would bring the U.N.
'justice' system even further
into disrepute that it has
hitherto managed.. Mr.
Lee alone has been penalised
for reporting information that
was disclosed in the course a
UNDT hearing that was open to
the public, and for publishing
images that were only made
available to him through the
negligence of the Counsel for
Mr. Padula, who put the
information into the public
domain in the first
place. As such, I do not
believe there is any good
reason why he should not be
made aware of this complaint
against Ms. Shehabi." By,
Peter A Gallo, cc: Matthew
Russell Lee.
The formal appeal
was prefaced by this:
"While I have
conferred with UN
practitioners on that
attached, I would like to add
that as a US journalist I find
it particularly outrageous
that the UNDT purported to
order me to destroy evidence
of sexual harassment / abuse
within the UN, of the type
that the UNSG and his
spokepeople refuse to answer
about or allow Inner City
Press into its briefings to
ask, even by WebEx which the
IMF, for example, answers
Inner City Press' over. All of
this should be reversed.
This is a request that you
acknowledge receipt and also
provide a case number."
And still,
nothing from the corrupt UN of
Antonio Guterres. #
We will have
more, including listing those
who have received the filing
without response, complicit in
the UN's cover up of abuse.
Watch this site.
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