While
C-SPAN Uses
Periscope, UN
Evicts Press
For It, Lies
to SFRC &
Kaye
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June 22
--
As the U.S.
House of
Representatives
was broadcast
by C-SPAN with
Periscope and
Facebook Live
video, the
contrast with
the UN could
not be
clearer. Based
on Inner City
Press
live-streaming
an event in
the UN Press
Briefing Room
on January 29,
Ban Ki-moon's
head of
“Public
Information”
Cristina
Gallach ousted
then evicted
Inner City
Press.
First, Gallach
claimed that
it was illegal
to film the
event. Then,
from an
interpreters
booth. But
others are
allowed in
there. And the
Handbook Ban's
Gallach cited
to the Senate
Foreign
Relations
Committee is
not online, or
on the UN's
iSeek
intranet. It
is a scam.
How can the UN
speak for free
press when it
lies to evict
the Press
which
questions it?
Why do NGOs
like CPJ say
nothing, just
hoping to get
invited in?
We'll have
more on this.
How
does the UN
under Ban Ki-moon
and his "Public
Information"
chief Cristina
Gallach
pretextually
evict the
critical Press
from its long
time office
and confine it
to minders,
hindering
further
reporting on
their
corruption?
This UN
"Aide
Memoire,"
which Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
called
"leaked" and
refused to
answer
questions on,
shows how - as
does this
Gallach's
letter of May
25, 2016. On
June 16, Inner
City Press was
belatedly
provided with
a copy of the
questions UN
Special
Rapporteurs
Kaye and Forst
sent to
Gallach on
February 25,
put it online
here:
So
Inner City
Press asked
Ban Ki-moon's
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
the letter(s),
Video
here, Vine here, UN
Transcript
here:
Inner
City Press:
I've become
aware today of
a letter that
was sent by
Special
Rapporteur
David Kaye and
Special
Rapporteur
Michel Forst
to Ms.
[Cristina]
Gallach of DPI
[Department of
Public
Information]
on 25
February,
asking about
ouster and
eviction of
Inner City
Press.
And her
response was
two months
later, and she
referred to an
altercation in
this room that
required… so
I'm asking
you. You
were
here.
Other than you
turning off my
phone, was it
an
altercation?
Is that an
accurate
statement?
Spokesman
Dujarric:
Matthew,
Matthew… I
have not… I
will not
comment on
your personal
issues.
Inner City
Press:
You're saying
it's a
personal
issue.
This was a
letter sent to
the Special
Rapporteur.
Spokesman:
And the
letter, if you
want to ask
for the
letter, you
could ask the
Special
Rapporteur.
Inner City
Press:
No, I've seen
the
letter.
And
below is
Gallach's
letter, here,
which itself
calls for
action.
UN's
Gallach Claims
Evicted ICP
Because Of
“Altercation”
When Video
Shows None,
Except Ban
Spox Trying To
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Russell Lee
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