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UN GATE, Dec 24
– 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
24 more
than three
hours before a
noon briefing by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric in
which he serviced a
Saudi state
media in putting
lipstick on
the scan trial
for the murder
of Khashoggi after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1419
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
2-20
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
24-1: On Cote
d'Ivoire, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that Ivory
Coast has
issued an
arrest warrant
for former
rebel leader
and ex-Prime
Minister
Guillaume Soro
who intends to
run in next
year's
presidential
election.
Mr Soro had
been due to
return to the
country on
Monday after
several months
abroad but
instead landed
in
Ghana.
Public
prosecutor
Richard Adou
said on state
television
that an arrest
warrant had
been issued
for alleged
breaches of
state
security,
receiving
stolen public
resources and
money
laundering.
Mr Soro denies
the
allegations.
Police fired
tear gas to
disperse his
supporters who
were
protesting on
the streets of
Abidjan, the
main city in
Ivory
Coast.
The decision
by the 47 year
old to run for
president
appears to
have rattled
President
Alassane
Ouattara who
may be seeking
re-election
himself.
December
24-2: On
Uzbekistan,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that a
secret court
in Uzbekistan
is poised to
sentence a
retired career
diplomat to up
to 20 years in
prison on a
treason charge
that his
family says is
the result of
repression and
a broken
justice
system.
The trial of
Kadyr Yusupov
December
24-3: On
Somalia and
media freedom,
what are the
comment and
actions if any
of SG
Guterres, and
separately USG
Melissa
Fleming as
well as the
SRSG, on the
shut down of
local
broadcaster
City FM? On
December 19,
police in
Jowhar, the
capital of
Hirshabelle
state, raided
the privately
owned City FM
broadcaster,
briefly
detained seven
of its
staffers,
confiscated
the keys to
the station’s
office, and
ordered it
shut down
indefinitely.
December
24-4: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - as I
asked at 4 pm
on December 20
wihtout
response, this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about the new
(Dec 19)r ape
case by a UN
Volunteer in
DRC in June
2019 - what
nationality?
What's been
done for the
victim(s)? and
the Dec 9 sex
abuse cases in
CAR by Gabon,
DRC and
Morocco UN
"peacekeepers,
and the Dec
g about
the Office of
the Special
Envoy for the
Sahel, and the
two more
November 26, 3
pm cases of
sexual
exploitation
in CAR by
Cameroon
troops in
September 2019
(!) and 2018,
and those of
November 21
from 2017 and
2016, released
an hour before
UNSG Guterres
met Cameroon
FM
December
24-5: On SG
Guterres' Town
Hall in
Geneva, on
which you
refused Inner
City Press'
Dec 20
question, what
is your
summary of
what SG
Guterres said
given that
Inner City
Press will be
publishing
more of it?
December
24-6: As
previously and
repeated
asked, where
IS UNSG
Antonio
Guterres, and
how much
public money
is he
spending?
December
24-7: On press
freedom and
Benin, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
of USG Melissa
Fleming on
efforts to
intimidate
journalist
Ignace Sossou?
On December
20, police
arrested
Sossou, a
reporter with
the privately
owned Benin
Web TV news
website, at
his home in
Cotonou.
Police held
Sossou at the
Cotonou Office
for the
Suppression of
Cybercrime and
questioned him
about posts he
made on
Facebook
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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