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UN GATE, July 13 – 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 July 13 after Guterres again refused to answer but the IMF did answer, here, and before an amateur UN noon briefing by Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric, previously the face of UN lies on cholera in Haiti, Inner City Press submitted yet more questions (blocked by Dujarric's screener Florencia Soto Nino on +1 917 226 7816 and Dujarric himself on +1 917 622 7652; he directed some favored scribes to Eri Kaneko on +1 917 208 8910, who now blocks Inner City Press on WhatsApp as well) including on the basis on which it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person. Now also on the basis for withholding publicly funded UN video from the Press. There was no answer from Farhan Haq on +1 917 592 4591, not even a confirmation of receipt, and now UN official like Hua Jiang, Eri Kaneko, now on screen Jennifer Confilio, Adam Smook, Marisela Rivera and others to be named taking public money for a UN briefing blocking email questions about the UN's spread of Covid 19 - May 21 Inner City Press video with commentary here and here, edit here, June 16 video of Kaneko who had briefing go dark and never returned to explain here and here -- who will be held accountable? June 17 here, June 19 here, June 22 here, June 24 here, June 30 here, July 1 here, July 6 here, July 7 here, July 8 here, July 9 here, July 10 here , July 13 here, Inner City Press asked:

July 13-1: Immediately respond to and explain this leaked audio, exclusively published by Inner City Press, of OIOS' Ben Swanson here 

July 13-1a: On the reported disciplining of two - BUT NOT THREE -- at UNTSO, explain why you have not named them; confirm or deny they are as Inner City Press asked you in June Michael Antoine and Ray Milan; disclose previous complaints regarding Antoine and any actions taken, and confirm that Administrative Leave without Pay allows for payment of education grant and insurance, and is not a disciplinary measure.

Also state when further actions are expected. See, here   (as of noon July 13 with more than 170,000 views on Twitter, more on other platforms)  NOW ANSWER - WHAT ABOUT THE DRIVER? Specifically, Inner City Press is reliably involved the driver was Juan Carlos Cunillera of UNTSO. Given his presence, and other irregularities, immediately explain why there are only two suspended and not three, and how this is not a cover up. 

ALSO - immediately respond to the UNRWA hiring scandal, and serious questions about the testimony of the Chef de Cabinet and USG Pollard, also involved in the Cunillera cover up.

  relatedly, confirm that the "Luminate" mentioned by USG Fleming on June 29 is Pierre Omidyar's foundation, here 

On Uganda, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Ugandan police have arrested academic and activist Stella Nyanzi and two Makerere University students.

Immediately explain and provide SG Guterres' comment and action on the events now-charged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell held in the UN, and any provisions to prevent formally accused sex traffickers, including of the UN, from using the UN. 

On Cameroon, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that dozens of youths have been arrested at Mile 16 Buea on July 6, More than 50 of them, they are currently at the CBC primary school at mile 16?

On UN bribery what are SG Guterres' comments and actions if any on the US Supreme Court's denial yesterday of UN briber Ng Lap Seng cert petition, thereby rejecting that the McDonnell doctrine applies to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? What has SG Guterres done on those still in the UN implicated in the Ng Lap Seng / South South News corruption (including in the press corps and UNTV) and Patrick Ho? 

as well as on the June 22 admission by Sri Lanka former PR Kohona that his country led a campaign to get Inner City Press ousted and banned from the UN after it reported on mass killings in Sri Lanka, as Inner CIty Press was also doing as to Cameroon when your UN banned it now for 721 day. What is the appeals process? On deadline."  

In Honduras, President JOH talked up hydroxychloroquin - what does SG Guterres say about that, and about JOH named today in narco-trafficking complaint in SDNY against former Honduran National Police Chief Tigre Bonilla? 

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