UN GATE, Dec 16
– 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.
The
head of the UN
Department
of Global
Communications
said,
again, that the UN
would answer Press
questions to the
Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his
Office;
Dujarric said
the same on
camera.
On December
16
before a
noon briefing by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric at
which he acknowledged
he wasn't
even at COP25
and that Guterres
will continue
his European
failure tour
next to Italy,
after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1394
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
900+
questions
UNanswered. Just
recently,
Nov 1-11, 13-29, Dec
2-12
many
questions.
No answers at
all during the
four days of
the US v Ho
trial showing
corruption in
the UN says it
all; no
answers during
the Honduras
narco-president
trial while UN
bragged
about taking his
money, nor on
OneCoin.
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.
December
16-1: On
Burundi and
freedom of
information,
what are the
comments of SG
Guterres and
separately
Michel Kafando
on that
Internet users
in Burundi
have been
unable to
access YouTube
since
Friday.
Melchior
Manirakiza, a
businessman in
the northern
city of Ngozi,
told BBC he
didn't believe
it was true
when he first
heard the news
from contacts
on WhatsApp
until he had a
go and saw for
himself.
"It wasn't
possible to
open it -
until Sunday
it was a
nationwide
cry-out and
people were
lamenting. We
don’t know
what's going
on."
Burundi's
telecoms
regulator
hasn't replied
to BBC on this
matter. Users
said they were
able to access
the site again
on Monday
morning.
Félicité
Muganwa, a
university
student in the
capital
Bujumbura,
told the BBC
she hopes a
shutdown won't
happen again
because she
depends on
YouTube a
lot.
Burundi's
government
recently
enforced a
shutdown on
the YouTube
comment
section of
independent
news outlet
Nawe, accusing
it of "rumor
mongering" and
"abusing the
culture".
December
16-2: On
Cameroon, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that last
week Biya's
army burned
down villages
including
Mamu? There is
video footage
of this all
over the
Internet, as
published and
linked to be
Inner City
Press, banned
from the
UN.
December
16-3: On
Honduras, what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that the
director of
the main
maximum
security
prison in
Honduras,
temporarily
suspended from
office during
the
investigation
so-called of
the murder of
Magdaleno, was
killed on
December 13 in
the south of
the country,
police
authorities
said.
Pedro
Idelfonso
Armas, 52, and
director of
the El Pozo
prison ,
located in
Santa Barbara,
in the west of
the country,
was in a
vehicle on the
Pan-American
Highway, in
the south of
the country,
where
strangers shot
him dead due
to causes
investigate,
according to
the police
report.
A car was
placed next to
the vehicle
that Armas was
driving and
was shot
several times,
police
said.
The
authorities
indicated that
the victim had
requested
political
asylum in
another
country "due
to multiple
death threats
he received
for his role
as director of
the Pozo No.1
Criminal
Center."
Armas was
suspended from
office after
the Ministry
of Security
opened an
investigation
against him
after
witnessing how
some inmates
killed
Magdaleno Meza
on October 26,
a former
confessed
member of Tony
Hernandez, who
is the brother
of JOH and was
convicted of
four drug
trafficking
crimes in the
SDNY.
December
16-4: On Haiti
what are the
comments of SG
Guterres on a
US federal
lawsuit filed
Thursday in
Massachusetts
against the
former mayor
of a small
town in Haiti
on behalf of
three Haitian
citizens who
allege he
violently
persecuted
them.
The former
mayor, Jean
Morose
Viliena, now
lives in
Malden, just
north of
Boston.
It seeks
unspecified
monetary
damages for
the family of
a Haitian man
who was killed
and two other
men who were
seriously
wounded when
Viliena
allegedly led
an armed group
in attacks on
his critics
and perceived
political
opponents.
Viliena was
the mayor of
Les Irois, a
town of about
22,000 in the
southwest
region of
Haiti... They
are suing
under the
Torture Victim
Protection Act
of 1991.
December
16-5: On
freedom of the
press, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming and
USG Liu on
that at the
end of 2019,
China had 48
journalists in
prison, more
than any other
nation.
China has
faced a
progressively
more
restrictive
media
environment
since Xi
Jinping became
president in
2013... The
crackdown is
especially
intense in
China’s
far-west
province of
Xinjiang with
23 cases of
journalists
imprisoned for
their work,
nearly half of
China’s total
imprisoned.
Foreign
correspondents
face severe
restrictions
when trying to
report from
Tibet,
Xinjiang or
elsewhere.
December
16-6: What are
the comments
and actions if
any of SG
Guterres and
separately USG
Melissa
Fleming and
USG Liu on
that China has
once again
moved to quell
criticism of
its human
rights abuses,
cancelling
live coverage
of a high
profile
English
Premier League
match over
comments from
one of the
competition’s
star
players.
Arsenal
midfielder
Mesut Ozil
published a
lengthy post
on his social
media accounts
on Friday,
calling out
China’s
persecution of
the Uighur
ethnic
minority
within its
borders
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.
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