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UNITED NATIONS, December 13, updated -- The French-sponsored meeting about protection of journalists held today in UN Conference Room 1 is ironically, described by its hosts as "off the record."

 When Inner City Press arrived before 10 am, it was first told, "no press." Then after some discussion it was allowed to enter -- after its backpack was searched for any camera.

 But inside the hosts themselves took and tweeted photographs. So we offer this, in real time:

  International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda spoke about Sudan, and said that people can write to her about attacks on journalists in the ICC's eight cases, all in Africa.

  Earlier in the week Inner City Press asked Bensouda UN Peacekeeping official Herve Ladsous having met with ICC indicted Omar al Bashir in July. She said she had been given no information about that meeting, and that non-essential meetings are not appropriate.

  Ladsous has not answered Press questions on what his Bashir meeting was about. In fact, he has adopted a policy of not answering any question from Inner City Press: video here, UK coverage here. This is the UN.

  In Syria, ISIS has journalists hostage in Raqqa, the Arria meeting's attendees were told. Who has spoken to the group's Gulf sponsors?

  After the panelists finished, Araud gave the floor to other Security Council members, asking them to be concise so that "other members" could speak. States only?

11: 15 am: The UK's Mark Lyall Grant asked what more the Council could do; it was difficult not to think of the UK charging David Miranda, working with Glenn Greenwald to expose spying, under terrorism laws.

 The night before the event, the French Mission's spokesman sent out this: