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UN GATE, Feb 12
– 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 budget
On August 17,
Guterres' Department
of Global
Communication issued
a letter banning
Inner City Press
from the UN - for
life. With no due
process,
and into
2020 under DGC's
Melissa Fleming,
no right of
appeal.
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
February 12
in connection
with a lame noon
briefing by Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1561
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
1000+
questions
UNanswered. No
answers at all
during the
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.
February
12-1: On
Cameroon, what
are the
belated
comment and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on reports
that between
January 17 and
20, 2020,
security
forces carried
out a military
operation in
Bali,
North-West
region,
destroying
over 50 homes
and killing
several
civilians?
February
12-2:
On Sri Lanka,
what are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that all 17
of the Action
Against Hunger
aid workers
were lined up
inside the
offices in
their compound
and shot in
the head
—executed in
cold blood.
Evidence
indicates that
they were
killed by
security
forces...
In 2014, the
HRC explicitly
called for the
creation of a
Special Court
with an
international
dimension to
investigate
the Muttur
massacre so
that justice
could be
served after
years of
impunity.
Unfortunately,
this request,
which was
approved by
the United
Nations and
the Government
of Sri Lanka,
has still not
been
implemented.
February
12-3: On
Cambodia and
the EU, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that the
European Union
said Wednesday
that it will
strip Cambodia
of its
preferential
market access
because
of
"systematic
violations" of
human rights
February
12-4: On El
Salvador what
are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG
Guterrres on
that armed
soldiers
marching into
El Salvador's
congress as
lawmakers
considered a
presidential
request.
February
12-5: On
corruption and
Angola, on
which you
refused to
answer
yesterday,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on the Luanda
Leaks exposure
of Isabel dos
Santos of
Angola, and as
Inner City
Press has
repeatedly
asked, what
are his
comments and
action on the
repeated
retweeting of
Isabel dos
Santos'
denials by his
close staffer
Aguinaldo
Baptista?
After, for
example,
exposure of
the corrupt
urban
development
project near
Luanda for
which some
3,000 families
were driven
from their
homes to make
way for the
development?
And now after
The Portuguese
bank EuroBic
has announced
it will end
its business
relationship
with Africa's
richest woman,
Isabel dos
Santos.
February
12-6:
Immediately
describe the
role of Angola
and the dos
Santos family
in the
campaign of
Antonio
Guterres ot
become
UNSG.
February 12-7:
On UN sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - as
Inner City
press asked in
writing in
2019 without
response, this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
if-asked
information
for the report
of UN rape in
Darfur data
dumped to
Conduct and
Discipline
website on the
morning of
January 17 and
the "if asked"
information
about the two
new cases of
sexual
exploitation
in CAR by
Cameroonian UN
"Police" that
were put
online after 5
pm on December
30 (a day when
you refused to
answer 7
questions
including on
previous UN
rapes), and
the (Dec 19)
rape 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
(!)
February
12-8: 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 has now
publishing
more of it?
Please explain
SG Guterres'
statement that
interns should
not (ever) be
paid, and how
this is not
create unfair
advantage for
the most
affluent?
February
12-9: As
previously and
repeated
asked, where
has UNSG
Antonio
Guterres been
for the past
week(s), and
how much
public money
has he spent?
Is he going
directly to
and from
Addis? Or any
stop overs? At
what
cost?
February
12-10: On
press freedom
and India what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on the
criminal
investigation
into
journalist
Mohammed
Mubashiruddin
Khurram? On
February 8,
two
plainclothes
police
officers in
the Mallepally
area of
Hyderabad, in
the southern
Indian state
of Telangana,
arrested
Khurram, a
reporter with
the local
Urdu-language
newspaper The
Siasat Daily,
while he was
covering a
protest
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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