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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, Feb 19 –  Inner City Press on 5 July 2018 was banned from entering the UN, two day after it was physically removed from conducting interviews outside meeting about the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' $6.7 billion budget.

  Then Guterres' Department of Global Communication, run by Melissa Fleming, issued a letter banning Inner City Press from the UN - for life. With no due process, no right of appeal.  Guterres has put the UN in the US Press Freedom Tracker, here. Guterres' Spokesman Stephane Dujarric falsely promised on camera that he would be answering banned Inner City Press' questions - but see below.

     On February 19 more than three hours before an 11-minute noon briefing not by Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric - could he still be in Orlando? - but Farhan Haq who has joined in Dujarric's UN rape cover ups, Inner City Press submitted yet more questions, including why it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person. Inner City Press has asked:

February 19-1: On Cameroon, given the evidence that the government is responsible for the killing of the civilians in Ngar / Ngarbuh, please explain why it is not capitulation or corruption for SG Guterres to call for Biya's government to investigate itself. Also, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on the continuing detention of journalist Martinez Zogo?  On January 17, judicial police officers in Yaoundé, the capital, arrested Zogo at the offices of Radio Amplitude FM, a privately owned broadcaster where he works as editor-in-chief, Zogo’s lawyer, Joseph Kenmoe, said.  Authorities charged him with criminal defamation following a complaint filed by Sylvie Biye Essono, the ex-wife of a government official, which alleged that Zogo had spread false information about her in a January 8 broadcast, Kenmoe said. On January 25, Zogo was transferred to Yaoundé’s Kondengui prison, where he remains in detention, Kenmoe said. 

February 19-2: On Turkey, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Turkish authorities have detained Osman Kavala, just hours after a court acquitted him on terrorism-related charges and ordered his release from jail.  Kavala was one of nine activists accused of terror charges over their involvement in Istanbul’s Gezi park protests who were acquitted 

February 19-3: Now that the US has identified Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International, China Global Television Network and the distributors of China Daily and People’s Daily as arms of the Chinese Communist Party, please immediate respond with the number of office space SG Guterres and USG Fleming give correspondents from these organizations and, again, explain the ouster and ban of independent Inner City Press. 

February 19-4: On Benin, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that a leading opposition figure in Benin has been barred from taking part in any election over the next four years and ordered to pay a fine of $8,200 (£6,300), for overspending on his 2016 presidential election campaign.  Lionel Zinsou will not able to stand in next year's presidential election as a result, unless he successfully challenges the court of appeal's verdict.  Mr Zinzou's lawyer, Robert Dossou, said. "Their aim is clear - they want to make Lionel Zinsou ineligible. Those in power want to push aside any credible potential candidate for the 2021 presidential election."

February 19-5: 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 19-6: Immediately describe the role of Angola and the dos Santos family in the campaign of Antonio Guterres ot become UNSG. 

February 19-7: 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 19-8: 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 19-9: 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 Pakistan? Previously from Addis? Or any stop overs? At what cost? 

February 19-10: On press freedom and Singapore, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on that Singapore said the news site States Times Review had broken a newly introduced "fake news" law and repeatedly conveyed "falsehoods".  The law - known as the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation bill (POFMA) - came into effect in October.

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