UN
Maintains
Demand to
Take Down Video
of Raid of
Press Office,
2d Goes
Up
UNITED
NATIONS, March
19 -- After
the UN
demanded the removal from YouTube
of a video
Inner City
Press filmed
after the UN
raided its
office and
searched its
papers, Inner
City Press
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
by what right
the UN made
the
demand, and
the raid.
Regarding
the
censorship
request,
Nesirky said
he was not
aware of the
details but
would reply. Video
here, from
Minute 37:37.
Inner
City Press is
now
posting a
second video,
regarding Pamela Falk
of
CBS, the
president of
the UN
Correspondents
Association,
increasingly
known as the
UN's
Censorship
Alliance,
ghoulishly
taking
photographs
of the raid.
UNCA has
tried to get
Inner City
Press thrown
out of the
UN, first
for its
reporting on
France and its
head of UN
Peacekeeping,
Herve Ladsous,
and on Sri
Lanka, war
crimes and
conflict of
interest,
then on UNCA
itself.
On
December 7,
2012, Inner
City Press
co-founded the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
to actually
defend (and
not target)
journalists
and push
the UN
Department of
Public
Information
for more
access and
fair
treatment of
all media,
including new
media.
But
when DPI
invited Inner
City Press as
FUNCA to an on the
record
meeting with
UNCA's Falk
and her first
vice president
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters, as
which Falk
screamed
“mugger” and
“you
call yourself
a journalist”
and Inner City
Press reported
on it,
DPI's
Stephane
Dujarric wrote
a letter
claiming that
“all sides”
understood the
meeting to be
off the
record.
The
audio
proves
otherwise,
but Dujarric
on March 15
responded to a
letter to the
head of DPI
by saying
“the letter
stands.”
The
next business
day, Inner
City Press'
office was
raided by the
MALU
unit Dujarric
controls.
We'll have
more on this.
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site.
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