As UN Bans
Inner City Press E-Asks Spox Dujarric of
Honduras UNODA Nigeria Virus Cameroon
#LuandaLeaks UN Rapes Pakistan Fleming Bans
Press 1000+ UNanswered
UN GATE, Feb 14
– 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 14
in connection
with a lame noon
briefing by Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric
before he
takes off to
Orlando
and skips February
17 after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1571
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
14-1: On
Honduras, on
which you have
refused Inner
City Press
questions
about SG
Guterres'
meeting(s)
with and
support for
President Juan
Orlando
Hernanez, even
when his
brother
Antonio was
convicted in
SDNY in a
trial showing
JOH took $1
million from
El Chapo, now
what are the
belated
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on the arrest
and detention
on drug
trafficking
charges of
President
JOH's cousin,
MauricioHernandez
Pineda? Again,
provide the
read out or
summary of the
visit to
Honduras of
the 4 person
panel SG
Guterres sent,
to prop up
JOH.
February
14-2: On UNODA
please
immediately
provide SG
Guterres and
High
Representative
Izumi
Nakamitsu's
response to
this sent to
banned Inner
City Press: "I
am a
whistleblower
from within
the UN
reporting
scandalous
management at
the UNODA.
Unprecedented
abuse and
harassment of
staff leading
to staff
resigning or
sacked, with
wave of risks
of suicide.
One staff
harassed to
death in the
African
center. All
offices away
from HQ
victims of
wrong
supervision
and management
from
secretariat,
with mandate
implementation
disregarded,
activities
shrinking,
staff being
abused and
sacked,
obvious waste
of public
resource.
There is an
atmosphere of
fear because
of reprisals
and sacking of
competent
staff. ODA
staff in
Secretariat,
Geneva,
Vienna, Lome,
Lima and
Katmandu know
very well what
is going on
but live in
fear of
reprisals."
February
14-3: On
Nigeria what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
DSG Amina J.
Mohammed on
reports
accusing
the Nigerian
military of
burning down
entire
villages and
forcing
thousands to
flee their
homes during
its fight
against
Islamist
militants in
the north-east
of the
country.
Witnesses
described how
the military
forced people
on to trucks
and took them
to
displacement
camps before
the villages
were
torched.
Satellite
images show
that almost
every
structure was
burnt in at
least three
villages in
Borno State.
February
14-4: On
coronavirus
and UN
Peacekeeping
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and USG
Lacroix,
including any
impact on
deployment of
peacekeepers
from China and
elsewhere, on
that
coronavirus is
spreading
among members
of the Chinese
military and
armed police,
with thousands
placed under
quarantine to
prevent
further
contagion,
according to
the Hong
Kong-based
Information
Center for
Human Rights
and Democracy
(ICHRD).
Ten soldiers
within the
People’s
Liberation
Army (PLA) and
15 armed
police
officers have
tested
positive for
COVID-19 in
Hubei
Province,
according to
the ICHRD,
which added
that 1,500
soldiers and
1,000 armed
police are
under
quarantine.
February
14-5: 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
14-6:
Immediately
describe the
role of Angola
and the dos
Santos family
in the
campaign of
Antonio
Guterres ot
become
UNSG.
February
14-7: 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
14-8: 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
14-9: 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
14-10: On
press freedom
and Pakistan
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that in
Pakistan,
which the SG
and 13 others
- who? - are
visiting,
social media
regulatory
measures that
were passed in
secret?
On January 28,
the federal
cabinet
approved the
“Citizens
Protection
(Against
Online Harm)
Rules, 2020."
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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