| In UN
General Assembly Tajikistan on Day 5 As UN
Limits Media Access to NYC or DC Residents
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, Sept 5 –
For the 2022 UN General
Assembly week, with coverage
from the inside restricted
to scribes living in New York
City's tri-state area or in
DC, will have Tajikistan on
Day 5, between Cuba and India.
This as
Tajik journalists Avazmad
Ghurbatov, Zavqibek Saidamini,
and Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda
were detained. A spokesperson
for Tajikistan’s
prosecutor-general confirmed
that Saidamini was being held
in the town of Vahdat, outside
the capital, Dushanbe, and
said the journalist was under
investigation... A lawyer
hired by Pirmuhammadzoda’s
family was being denied access
to the journalist...
They will not be at the
ghoulish UNGA of Antonio
Guterres. Watch this site.
How
corrupt is today’s United
Nations and its in-house UN
press corps? For this months
UN General Assembly Week 2022,
the UN while inviting from all
over the world diplomats like
the South Sudan ambassador who
recently raped
a woman in NYC then fled with
diplomatic immunity has
limited media access to only
to correspondents “residing
in the tri-state area or
Washington, D.C.”
The announcement
was quietly placed on the UN’s
website.
First, “NOTE
ON UNGA: In order to manage
overall risk related to
COVID-19 during the high-level
period of the General Assembly
(UNGA), entry to the United
Nations will be limited to
long-term media pass
holders.”
When you click
through to see what
“long-term” means (after the
UN under Guterres ousted Inner
City Press which covered Ban
Ki-moon and even the end of
Kofi Annan) you find it means
correspondents “residing in
the tri-state area or
Washington,
D.C.”
This was
presaged by a cryptic
message from United
Nations Corrspondents
Association boss Valeria
Robecco, who like UNSG Antonio
Guterres' Media Accrediation
and Liaison Unit censor Melissa
Fleming have refused to
answer a polite letter about
Press access from the pro bono
law firm Quinn Emanuel, here.
So the less than
100 correspondents, heavy with
state media and retirees,
making up the UN
Correspondents Association
(which partnered
with a Chinese government
fraudster whose bribery
indictment was unsealed on
September 2 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York)
have sold out journalists all
over the world – and, as with
Inner City Press, in New York
City.
We’ll have more on this.
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