UN
Is Asked Again of Giving Names
To China To Which Guterres Is
Linked Through UN Briber
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UN GATE, Dec 14 –
Today's UN system's attacks on
whistleblowers extend from New
York where Secretary General
Antonio Guterres' armed
Security officials ousted the
Press on first 22 June 2018 (video,
petition, Q&A) then on 3
July 2018
and for
529
days since, to
Geneva where the Human Rights
Commissioner's spokesman
Rupert Colville deploys "hard
talk" (and worse) against
whistleblowers.
On August
1 Inner City Press reached out
to UN whistleblower Emma
Reilly for an update on her
case(s). Noting that Guterres'
Jan Beagle has said that staff
are free to respond, we
publish her response: "my two
remaining cases were heard
last month before the UN
Dispute Tribunal. I felt I was
given a fair hearing, and was
feeling confident that the
judgement of the Tribunal
would go some way to restoring
my reputation, which the UN so
deliberately and maliciously
attacked. The UN argued, in
public hearings, that it was
"unreasonable" for me to
believe that human rights
could, under any
circumstances, take priority
over the possibility of an
improved political
relationship with China. I had
always hoped that was an error
of the Ethics Officer assigned
to my case, but the hearings
confirmed it is in fact
official UN policy. Instead of
allowing justice to take its
course, the UN intervened to
remove the judge hearing my
case. I will challenge that,
but after six years of
retaliation, I am frankly
tired of seeing the UN ignore
every principle it advocates.
I can simply no longer ignore
the hypocrisy of the UN Human
Rights Office being complicit
in the very reprisals its
denounces, or the UN
advocating for the rule of law
while breaching the most
fundamental principles of
equality of arms, and
independence of the judiciary.
Can you imagine the UN
reaction if the accused in a
court case removed the judge
between trial and
verdict? I could not
believe more strongly in the
principles the UN claims to
uphold, nor be more
disappointed at the fact that
the most senior officials are
so willing to betray all of
them in order to cover up a
policy of complicity in human
rights violations. Every time
I reported that officials were
handing names to China, I
genuinely thought they would
care about people's lives and
safety and it would stop. I
was clearly naïve."
It's that
Guterres has a financial link
to the UN briber CEFC China
Energy, through the Gulbenkian
Foundation, and uses publicly
funded guard to rough up the
Press that asks. Disgusting.
We wish Ms. Reilly and all
whistleblowers well. And now
on December 14 we are glad to
Ben Evansky for covering the
case, here,
linking to Inner City Press'
initial coverage, here
from 2018.
On December 13 he
asked Guterres' deputy
spokesman Farhan Haq, of late
turned into a rape cover-up
man like lead spokesman
Stephen Dujarric, and Haq
typically dodged. Video here,
at end, after a craven request
for free tickets to Carnegie
Hall by a long time UN
correspondent who asks only
about Lebanon and writes, if
at all, about affluent culture
in New York. Meanwhile, names
given to China, gotten worse
under corrupt Guterres who
himself bans the Press, 529
days. We will not relent.
Watch this site.
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