UNITED NATIONS
GATE, Nov 4
– Inner City Press
on 5 July
2018 was
banned from entering
the UN, the day
after it filed a
criminal complaint
against UN Security
for physically
removing it from
covering the meeting
about the UN
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres'
$6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget,
as witnessed and
essentially cheered
on by senior UN
official Christian
Saunders, tearing
its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally
twisting his arm and
slamming shut and
damaging his laptop.
On August 17,
Guterres' Department
of Global Communication
issued a letter
banning Inner City
Press from the UN -
for life. With no
due process.
Guterres has
put the UN in the US
Press Freedom
Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN
would answer Press
questions to the
Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his
Office;
Dujarric said
the same on
camera.
On November 4 more
than three
hours
before what
would have
been a
noon briefing by Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric except
he is
again missing,
handing it to
Farhan Haq who had
*thanked*
Honduras,
and on
November
1fielded
burning
questions from
retired
correspondent
about "the
elevators"
after the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1329
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
800+
questions
UNanswered.
And Monday
Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept
18, Wed Sept
19 and
Thurs and Fri
Sept 21, that
whole week, no
questions
answered. Nor
Sept 25, nor
28th - nor
October 2 nor
3. While
appreciating
and using what
was belatedly
sent on Sept 6
(while you
still withhold
if-asked
information
about Cameroon
child rape(s)
in DRC),
and on March
28 in partial
request to
Inner City
Press'
questions
about the UN
bribery
sentence of
Patrick Ho of
CEFC and
CEFC's 2018
attempt to buy
the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid the
SG, no answers
on Dec 17 or
18 or 19 or 20
or 21 -
another FIVE
days in a row,
even as SG's
direct
conflicts of
interest and
failure to
disclose
emerge, and a
newest low. No
answers on
January 30 nor
31 nor
February 1 nor
4 nor 5 nor 6
nor 7 nor 11
nor 12 nor 13
nor 14 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19
nor 20 nor 21
nor 22 nor 25
nor 26 nor 27
nor March 1 -
27 (!) And now April 1, 3-30 (one
answer
in the
entire month -
corrupt), and
now May
1-13, 15-17,
21-31,
June
3-28,
and July 1-2,
8-31 and August
1-5,
8-30,
Sept 3-5, 9-30
and now
October 1-3,
7-14,
16-31 and
Nov 1
many
questions.
No answers at
all during
those four
days of the US
v Ho trial
showing
corruption in
the UN says it
all. This ban
is just
censorship -
and Inner City
Press must be
allowed back
into the noon
briefing to
ask its
questions in
person and
follow up on
them.
November
4-1: On
Tanzania and
Burundi, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that the
Tanzanian
authorities
have banned
commercial
activities
inside Nduta
refugee camp,
in the
north-west
region, which
hosts more
than 73,000
Burundian
refugees.
The refugees
say the ban,
together with
the demolition
of the main
market over
the weekend,
is part of
efforts to
force them to
leave the
camp.
November
4-2: On Sri
Lanka in light
of your and
USG LaCroix's
misleading
annoucements
on which you
have refused
to answer
Press
questions,
please
immediately
response as
the UN has
refused to
with involved
NGOs to
whether the UN
is considering
actually
deploying Sri
Lanka /
Shavendra
Silva troops
to Malia, up
to 250 of them
November
4-3: Given the
capture but
then near
immediate
release of the
son of
imprisoned
narco-trafficker
(and Honduras
JOH campaign
donor) El
Chapo, Ovidio
Guzman, and
the comments
of Gen. Carlos
Gaytán, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
who has
through his
spokesman
bragged of
JOH's
presumptively
tainted money
on these
lawless
developments
in Mexico? All
of the
Honduras
questions you
have refused
for weeks -
and back to
before you had
Inner City
Press roughed
up and banned
- are
reiterated,
including for
read-out of
the 4 person
panel Guterres
sent to
Honduras and
the full read
out of his
September 2019
meeting with
JOH on the eve
of the narco
trial in the
SDNY
court?
November
4-4: On Yemen
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that
hundreds are
protesting in
Yemen's remote
island of
Socotra in the
Gulf of Aden
near Somalia,
demanding the
United Arab
Emirates
withdraw from
the island
November
4-6: On China
and Hong Kong,
what are the
comments and
actions of SG
Guterres and
separately USG
Liu on
that
China's
state-owned
media on
Monday called
for a "tougher
line" against
pro-democracy
demonstrators
in Hong Kong
November
4-7: On Qatar
and labor
rights, please
immediately
confirm or
deny any UN
system use of
the Marsa
Malaz
Kempinski
hotel where
staff were
"made to work
12-hour shifts
in 45C heat
for just £8
per day"
November
4-8: On
freedom of
association
and press
freedom, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that
Ugandan police
have fired
tear gas at
journalists in
the capital,
Kampala, in
protests
against
alleged police
abuse?
November
4-9: On press
freedom and
Turkey after
SG Guterres'
shameful
read-out
there, what
are his
comments and
actions if any
on that on
October 10,
the Chief
Prosecutor’s
office in
Istanbul
released a
statement
banning
criticism of
Turkish
strikes in
northern
Syria. The
Prosecutor’s
statement
promises
to punish
anyone who
“targets the
social peace
of the
Republic of
Turkey,
domestic
peace, unity
and security”
with “any kind
of suggestive
news, written
or visual
publication/broadcast”
alongside
“operational
social media
accounts.”
November
1-1: On
Cameroon, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on the US
decision to
cut trade
benefits to
Biya's
Cameroon
citing
extrajudicial
killings and
other number
rights abuses?
Relatedly as
asked
yesterday and
before without
response,
where is the
if-asked
information
about the
Cameroon UN
"peacekeepers"
alleged child
rape and child
sexual abuse
in CAR?
November
1-2: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about the case
of sexual
abuse of a
child alleged
against a
Cameroon UN
"peacekeeper"
in CAR
cursorily data
dump on
October 31 at
1:30 pm as
well as
previously
requested
without
response about
the child rape
and sexual
exploitation
by UN
"peacekeepers"
from Cameroon
and South
Africa the UN
cursorily
disclosed on
the afternoon
of October 28
- about which
Inner City
Press did not
this time
immediately
ask, given
that each of
you have
refused for
one week and
counting to
answer in any
way with
if-asked
information
about the
child rape and
sexual
exploitation
cases
involving
Indonesia,
Mauritania and
again
Cameroon, in
DRC and
Central
African
Republic
cursorily data
dumped onto
the UN website
after 3 pm on
October
21.
September
4-8:
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denial.
And a demand
for answer to
these
questions,
which MALU has
declined to
answer:
Who made the
decision?
Where is the
list of those
accredited by
[MALU]?
What and to
whom is the
process of
appeal?
September
3-19: On press
freedom and
Cameroon, on
which you
refused to
answer on
August 13
despite saying
the office was
staffed and
answering, now
more specific:
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any, post
golden statue,
to that Paul
Atanga Nji,
territorial
administration
minister, says
Cameroon's
journalists
are becoming
highly
unpatriotic.
"They have one
main
objective,
just to
sabotage
government
action, to
promote
secessionist
tendencies,"
said Nji. "I
urge them to
be
responsible.
Those who do
not want to
respect the
laws will be
booked as
being
recalcitrant
and will be
treated as
such"... Now
that the US
Court of
Appeals for
the Second
Circuit has
ruled against
public
officials
blocking
critics on
Twitter even
if the
official
claims their
account is
private [and AOC
unblocking Dov
Hikind],
what is the
justification
for UNSG
Spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric, with
the UN flag in
his profile
photo and
Guterres
promoting
content,
blocking Inner
City Press?
What is SG
Guterres'
response /
reaction to UN
DSS and
Guterres'
actions on
Inner City
Press being
listed in the
U.S. Press
Freedom
Tracker, here.
In the UN,
what has the
accountability
been for Lt
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
those those
refused on
camera to give
their names?
What is each
of yours -
particularly
the SG's -
response to
the letter
written and
sent by
Burundi
activist
Manisha
Lievin?
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denied,
and since
SGcentral, the
SG's chief of
staff and
Deputy SG and
USG Fleming
have not even
responded...
AGAIN,
immediately
explain how it
is legitimate
to ban from
enter into the
UN the media
that has been
asking about
these and
other
questions,
with no
hearing or
appeal - and
respond that
Inner City
Press on
August 24
applied like
100s or 1000s
of others to
cover the
upcoming UNGA
high level
week,
including now
formally
offering to
answer any
quesions the
UN / DSS might
have, having
been vetted
and accredited
elsewhere
since, as both
USG DSS
Michaud and
MALU have
formally been
timely
informed --
and how it is
possible that
a media that
closely covers
and uncovers
the UN could
be denied
entry, other
than (SG)
censorship.
May
15-3: On the
Public
Financial
Disclosures
for 2017
belatedly
published over
the weekend of
April 27-28,
please state
why Mohammed
Ibn Chambas,
like the
Executive
Secretary of
the UN
Biodiversity
Convention,
Cristiana
Paşca-Palmer,
UNICEF's
Henriette
Fore, with
documented
links to
ExxonMobil and
others, USG
Mark Lowcock
(undisclosed
while the
Secretariat's
speaker at the
UNSC Arria on
Cameroon),
UNCTAD's
Mukhisa
Kituyi, UN
Women's
Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka,
UNOG chief
Michael
Moller, UNDP
chief Achim
Steiner,
Heidi Mendoza,
Adama Dieng,
UN Security
chief Peter
Drennan,
Rosemary
DiCarlo and
Nicholas
Haysum, is not
even on the
list. OIOS
chief
Inga-Britt
Ahlenius
reported - why
not Mendoza?
Where IS
Mendoza? Isn't
it a bad
practice for
the UN's head
(anti)
genocide
definition
official to
conceal from
the public
even cursory
financial
disclosure?
Did DiCarlo
decline to
make any
public
disclosure
despite being
the UN's top
political
officer? What
is the even
plausible
applicability
of this line
from SG
Guterres' web
page: "Please
note that
given the
multi-cultural
environment of
the UN and the
often security
sensitive
locations
where UN staff
are either
working or
come from,
full public
disclosure may
not always be
a viable or
sensible
option for
certain staff
members"? Why
has Guterres
changed the
previous
system in a
which a
"choosing not
to disclose"
statement was
upload and
listed, to one
which helps
conceal who
reports and
who does
not?
Again, state
why
considering
the UN bribery
conviction of
Patrick Ho of
CEFC, and
CEFC's attempt
to purchase
the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid Mr.
Guterres in
2016 was
omitted from
his online
public
financial
disclosure
covering 2016,
and why
Guterres has
not even
started an
audit of CEFC
in the
UN.
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