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Session Goes Dark at HRC47 In Corrupt UN
of Guterres Who Bans Press 1099th Day
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video Song
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UN GATE, July 5 –
Right after dissident blogger
Pratasevich was grabbed off a
Ryan Air flight forced to land
in Belarus, many including the
US spoke.
But for more than
a full day, nothing from
Antonio Guterres, the UN
Secretary General who rarely
takes questions and even had
the Press which asked him
about the mass killings in
Cameroon thrown
out of the UN. Alert here;
new Belarus Blues song here.
Now on
July 5, the UN was promoting a
HRC 47 session by its special
rapporteur on Belarus Anais
Marin. But just a few minutes
into her presentation on UNTV
to an empty room in Geneva,
the webcast went dark. They
claim it went all of 29
minutes, but after Minute 13,
it is silent darkness, see here, and FUNCA
Question here.
This is Antonio Guterres' UN -
a place of incompetence,
unaccountability and
censorship. It must change.
Now late and
hypocritical, given that they
have done nothing about
Guterres banning
Inner City Press now for
1099 days amid its questions,
this: "The co-chairs of the
United Nations Group of
Friends for the Protection of
Journalists – Greece, France
and Lithuania - and the
undersigned Members of the
Group of Friends strongly
condemn the forced landing of
a Ryanair flight in Minsk,
Belarus, on May 23, 2021,
prompted by Belarusian
authorities in order to arrest
and detain independent
journalist Raman Pratasevich
and his companion, Sofia
Sapega...
[See see this and this
at UN.]
Signed,
Co-chairs of the UN Group of
Friends for the Protection of
Journalists, Ambassadors,
Permanent Representatives of
Greece, France and
Lithuania
Annex:
Co-signatories members of the
Group of Friends (in
alphabetical order): Austria,
Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa
Rica, Ghana, Latvia, Republic
of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland,
the UK, USA, Uruguay."
The Free UN
Coalition for Access (FUNCA)
will report on all results.
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