As UN Bans
Inner City Press It E-Asks Spox Dujarric
of Cameroon Thailand Guinea Bissau
UN Rape CAR #LuandaLeaks China Fleming
Bans Press 2000+ UNanswered
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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COURT, Feb 25 – 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 25 before a noon
briefing by Stephane "French
Whine" Dujarric in which
he offered Guterres sympathy
for Mubarak, 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 25-1: On
Cameroon, what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres on the fake
protests, paid by Biya's
government, against questions
being raised about the recent
mass killings by the
government in Ngar? What if
anything has been the follow
up of Guterres?
February 25-2: On
Guinea Bissau, what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres on that Umaro
Embaló has confirmed that he’s
going to take the oath of
office this Thursday as
President of Guinea-Bissau.
The dispute between the
National Electoral Commission,
which declared Embaló as the
winner of the Presidential
elections, and the Supreme
Court enters now its third
month without any clear signs
of stabilization.
February 25-3: On
Thailand, what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres on that hundreds
of Thai students protested on
Monday against the dissolution
of a popular opposition party
as Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha and five cabinet
ministers faced the first day
of a censure debate in
parliament?
February 25-4:
Again on CAR, which you
refused to answer yesterday,
now immediate confirm these
PNGs, and state what each of
the UN personnel did: 'The
facts reported are deemed
sufficiently serious by the
Central African Authorities,
who therefore request the
departure of the persons
concerned, and cited below,
from Central African
territory. A transfer, within
one week is requested, at the
risk of having their
immunities lifted and of
seeing them be brought before
the Central African Justice
for the acts of which they are
accused The persons denounced
are: - Mr. ZALKO BARS
Dimitroff, Head of MINUSCA
coordination office in Bangui;
Mr. TORRES RAY, Director of
Political Affairs of MINUSCA;
- Mr. CARLOS José, Head of
coordination for the 3rd
arrondissement; - Mr. TORRES
RAY, Director of Political
Affairs of MINUSCA; - Mr.
CARLOS José, Head of
coordination for the 3rd
arrondissement; - Mr. KEITA
Mamady Rouge, Agent of MINUSCA
seconded to the 3rd district.
Please accept, Mr. Special
Representative, the expression
of my distinguished
consideration. o apues Stra
des Affan Ministère da
Minister Sylvie BAIPO
TEMON.'"
February 25-5: 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 25-6:
Immediately describe the role
of Angola and the dos Santos
family in the campaign of
Antonio Guterres ot become
UNSG.
February 25-7: On
UN sexual exploitation and
abuse - alleged - as Inner
City Press requested before 10
am on February 24, immediately
provide all if-asked / further
information immediately
provide the if-asked
information about the new sex
abuse cases data dumped at
9:30 am on Feb 24, involving
UN rape in DRC by Guatemala
"peacekeeper," and abuse by
Senegal in Haiti, and Gabon
and Mauritania in CAR, etc and
as Inner City Press asked in
writing in 2019 without
response, 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 25-8: 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 25-9: 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 25-10:
On press freedom and China,
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
and separately USG Melissa
Fleming on that a court in
China has sentenced to 10
years in prison a Hong
Kong-based book publisher with
Swedish citizenship, Gui
Minhai?
More
here.
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