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UN
Demands
Removal of
Video of UN
Raid of Press
Office “As
First Step”
UNITED
NATIONS, March
19 -- The day
after the UN
raided Inner
City Press'
office, going
through papers
and taking
photographs,
and Inner City
Press which
was not
notified
belatedly
arrived and
filmed the
post-raid
scene, the UN
has demanded
the deletion
and censorship
of
the video. The video is here.
According
to
the UN's
demand, those
who entered
and searched
Inner City
Press'
office without
notice or
consent were
just going
their job and
have a
right not to
be filmed.
The UN
demands that
Inner City
Press “remove
the
images and the
YouTube video
as a first
step to
addressing
this
matter.”
Well,
no. When you
as a
representative
of authority
enter a
journalist's
office without
consent, you
should be
filmed -- and
it should not
be
a surprise.
By
analogy, the
New York Civil
Liberties
recently
released an
application to
film any
police
authority
doing their
work
-- one has an
absolute right
to film
It
is telling
that Ban
Ki-moon's UN
and Department
of Public
Information
refused the NYCLU's
July 5, 2012
request to be
informed of
due
process rules
for
journalists,
and now
demands more
censorship, of
a
video related
to their raid
on a
journalist's
office.
We
will have more
on this. Watch
this site.
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