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UN GATE, Sept 14 – 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 September 14 after Guterres again refused to answer but the IMF did answer, here, and before what would have been, if he had not lazily canceled it after his two week vacation, an amateur UN noon briefing by quarantine violator 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? July 16 and ouster here, July 17 raw and UNTV, July 20 here, July 21 here and UNTV, July 22 here and UNTV, July 23 here, July 24 here and UNTV, July 28 UNTV, July 29 here, July 30 here, August 5 here, August 6 here, August 7 here, August 10 here with Scameroon question, August 11 briefing and quarantine violations, Aug 12 here, August 14 here, Aug 17 here, Aug 19 here, Aug 21 here, Aug 24 here, Aug 26 here, Aug 27 here, Aug 28 here, Sept 3 here, Sept 10 here, Sept 11 here, Sept 14 here, Inner City Press asked:

Sept 14-1: Immediately respond to (as you have to date refused to) and explain this leaked audio, exclusively published by Inner City Press, of OIOS' Ben Swanson here 

What is SG Guterres' response to the calls for him to resign, see here.  What are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Fleming on that the media regulator in Chad has closed down 12 publications, accusing them of breaking the law. 

On Thailand, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Fleming on that Thai authorities have summoned the heads of universities to tell them to stop students demanding reform of the monarchy, warning that such calls could lead to violence, a member of the military-appointed Senate said on Sunday. 

 What is the UN's response to Inner City Press' Sept 5 application for access to briefings to ask these and other questions (as it was allowed to do with the IMF on September 10), receipt of which was confirmed by MALU? How can retirees who publish nothing be allowed in, and Inner City Press which asks (without answer) and publishes be excluded, and it not be censorship? 

On retaliation what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres to this, published exclusively by Inner City Press on September 13:  Wei Lei testified against Gurry in an OIOS investigation," see below.    Now, on September 13, amid evidence that the French Ambassador hearing up the WIPO Coordination Committee is covering up for Guterres' fellow retaliator Gurry before he leaves on September 30, this: "13 September 2020  Dear Ambassador Rivasseau, My name is Wei Lei. I am the former Chief Information Officer (D-2 level) at WIPO. You will recall that I blew the whistle on WIPO Director General Francis Gurry’s corruption in a procurement process."

On the DRC what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that 58 people have been killed in two attacks.  A rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of being behind the violence. It has killed hundreds of civilians in recent months.  Seventeen people are also missing and are thought to have been kidnapped by the group 

On Mozambique what are the comments and actions if any of Lusophone SG Guterres on that Mozambique’s military has denied accusations of human rights violations over its fight against an Islamist insurgency in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado.  Rights groups had earlier this week accused Mozambican soldiers of murder, torture, ill-treatment of prisoners, possible extrajudicial executions and the transport and discarding of a large number of corpses into apparent mass graves.

Please confirm that to head the Task Force Inner City Press reported on on Sept 9 the head of the TF is Catherine Pollard, and that she was responsible for the botched / racist survey: Subject: SG letter to Staff Members on Task Force on Addressing Racism and Promoting Dignity for All in the United Nations Sent: Wednesday, September 9

 On the UNTSO UN sexploitation case, as Inner City Press asked on August 13, 2020, immediately state why since Procurement driver Juan Carlos Cunillera was driving, and violated UN carlog procedures, he is now being fully paid unlike what your Office previously announced while refusing to answer any of the questions of Inner City Press which first published the video. Now that Cunillera requested and got disappearance of the order, explain why your refusal to answer is not simply a Guterres cover up of UN sexual abuse. 

On UN staffer Karim Elkorany, indicted in SDNY for lying to FBI about drugging and raping women while working for UN in Iraq, immediately state what the outcome of the victim complaining to the UN was - and why Elkorany was back at liberty in New Jersey.

AGAIN - immediately explain UN Amir Dossal being 1 of 5 on board of Ghislaine Maxwell's Terramar Project, and what has been done about it.

 Immediately provide the if-asked information on the new SEA charged data dumped this morning about allegations against South Africa "peacekeeper" in DRC and Gabon "peacekeeper" in CAR, and -- As Inner City Press asked each of you on August 17 without answer, re new 2020 UN child rape in South Sudan case data dumped on the afternoon of August 17 - immediately provide all if-asked info of the type previously provided under Ban Ki-moon before SG Guterres tried to cover everything up,  and August 5, 9 am by Italy in Lebanon, South Africa in DRC and an UNSPECIFIED UN civilian CHILD RAPE in DR Congo of July 28 of Gabon in CAR and Guinea in DRC, on top of those of July 23, 6 pm that you immediately provide all if-asked / further information about the new UN sexual exploitation allegations in CAR against UN "peacekeeper" from Gabon, and in DRC by South Africa, on top of unanswered UNTSO driver question and those data dumped on June 4 after 2:30 pm - the twelfth batch this summer so far, no answers, UNSG complicit

On Honduras and COVID corruption by the Juan Orlando Hernandez administration, what are the comment and actions if any of SG Guterres on the corruption allegations here? And again, what is the read out of Guterres' panel sent to Honduras? 

On Cameroon, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that  Two of the seven soldiers who have been on trial in Cameroon for the murder of women and children have been released

On Cameroon, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Language differences played out in court in Cameroon during an appeal hearing against the life sentences handed down last August to Anglophone separatist leader Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and nine others.

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 801 day. What is the appeals process? On deadline."  

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