As UN Bans
Inner City Press 1235th Day It E-Asks Spox
Dujarric of Burma Plot & UN, Haiti
Rapes, Law Firm Letter No Reply, UNGA
Nigeria Reilly Fleming 9000 UNanswered
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon IMF
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- CJR -
PFT
UN GATE, August
10 – 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 August 10 after Guterres again
refused to answer but
the IMF did answer, May 6 here,
Feb 25 here,
Feb 4 here,
here
(3 Dec 2020), like here,
before Stephane "French
Whine" Dujarric,
previously the face of UN lies
on cholera in Haiti (and on
July 9 saying he will continue
hybrid briefings, exclusion of
Inner City Press more and more
absurd), not his now equally
censoring Associate Eri
Kaneko, nor Deputy Farhan Haq,
held a briefing and 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...
August 11 briefing
and quarantine violations,
Nov 23 here
(with those allowed in
obsessed by Antony Blinken and
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, whom
we too will cover, and did
even before nomination, here),
Feb 11 here,
Feb 12 here
(short because Honduras
coverage, another
Guterres cover up), Feb 26 here,
March 1 here,
March 2 here,
March 3 here
(Twitter video briefing by
Brenden Varma who blocks Inner
City Press on Twitter), April
13 here,
April 15 here,
April 16 here,
April 21 here,
April 22 here,
April 23 here,
May 4 here,
May 6 here,
May 25 stand-up here,
May 26 here,
June 2 stand-up here,
June 3 stand-up here,
June 4 here,
June 8 stand-up here,
June 17 stand-up here,
IMF answer to ICP on June 24
here, VLOG Aug 3 here,
Aug 4 here,
Aug 9 here
& Aug 9 Q&A here,
Inner City Press asked:
These written
question are posed and
responses requested pursuant
to the until-now broken
commitment the the UN will
"continue to answer e-mailed
questions from Mr Lee" Inner
City Press, here
Aug 10-1:
Immediately explain the basis
for banning me and Inner City
Press from the UN and its
briefings when not only the
IMF on May 20, 2021 on Sudan
and El Salvador, here,
and IMF on June
10, 2021: on Tanzania
and Cameroon and
on El
Salvador
and Wilson Center
on May 20, 2021 on North
Korea, here,
and also on March 26, 2021 the
US State Department takes
Inner City Press' questions,
transcript here
and May 27, 2021
"Briefing with Acting
Assistant Secretary for
Western Hemisphere Affairs
Julie Chung On the Secretary’s
Upcoming Travel to San Jose,
Costa Rica," "Let’s go the
line Matthew Russell
Lee. QUESTION: Sure.
Thanks a lot and thanks for
taking the question. I had
wanted to ask specifically
about Honduras. There have
been a series of cases in the
Southern District of New York
where the brother of the
president, Juan Orlando
Hernandez, his brother Tony
was convicted of drug
trafficking," see here.
What is the
response of SG Guterres' / USG
Fleming to the letter sent to
her and others by the Quinn
Emanuel law firm regarding
ending Press censorship?
See "answer" August 9, here:
letter received, no change in
status - no reply.
After repeated
non-answers to the above, on
August 9 UN Spokesperson
Dujarric was asked "Quinn
Emanuel wrote a letter to the
UN asking about reinstatement
of our colleague Matthew Lee
into the UN press corps. Do
you have any comment on
that?
Spokesman: No. All I can
tell you is that we've
received the letter, and I'm
not aware of any change to his
status... It's been received.
Whether or not it's been
answered, I don't know yet."
How can the UN, which preached
press freedom, not even answer
a letter for a journalist from
a major law firm? What is your
answer? When will Inner City
Press be restored to resident
correspondent status, like
various state media?
On Nigeria,
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
and separately DSG Amina J.
Mohammed on that the Nigerian
government is demanding
punishment for Indonesian
immigration officials who were
filmed assaulting a Nigerian
diplomat. Footage
circulating on social media
showed Abdulrahman Ibrahim, a
consular officer based in
Jakarta, being held down in a
vehicle by several men.
Between yells of protest, Mr
Ibrahim repeated: "I can't
breathe."
On Burma,
what are the belated comments
and actions if any of SG
Guterres on the Myanmar
junta's criticism, citing the
Vienna Convention and the UN,
of the SDNY prosecution of two
Burmese for plot to kill
Myanmar's ambassador to the
UN?
Where *is* SG
Guterres? At what cost to the
public?
On Haiti, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres and
separately his SRSG on that
Haiti and its developement
agency are being sued for
non-payment of $27 million
worth of delivered oil, with
the Central Bank of Haiti on
August 4 moving to intervene
in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York (which Inner City Press
covers, including the chase of
UN bribery by CEFC China which
tried to buy the oil company
of Gulbenkian Foundation,
which paid Mr. Guterres but
not disclosed on his public
financial disclosure covering
2016). This case is
Preble-Rish Haiti, S.A. v.
Republic of Haiti, et al.,
21-cv-4960.
On UN retaliating
against whistleblowers, what
is SG Guterres' response to
recent public statements by
Emma Reilly that steps are
being taken to fire her by the
end of August, under a UN
claim that whether names of
Uighur dissidents were given
to China is irrelevant to the
case?
On Cameroon /
Ambazonia, what after all this
time are the comments and
action sif any of SG Guterres
on that Medical charity
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
has withdrawn from Cameroon’s
North-West region after months
of suspension by the
authorities.
ON DEADLINE: Amid
Aug 3 reports that NYC will
require proof of vaccination
for indoor events, starting
this month with full
enforcement mid-September, and
in light of UN announcement of
"honor system" in person UNGA
high level week Sept 21, will
that now be canceled or proof
of vaccination required of
everyone?
What are SG
Guterres' comments if any on
the findings of sexual
harassment and retaliation by
NYS Government Cuomo? And why
has Guterres covered up for
Hochschild, and retaliated
including against Press
reporting on Hochschild and UN
peacekeepers' sexual abuse
cases?
On UN retaliating against
whistleblowers, what is SG Guterres' response
to recent public statements by Emma Reilly
that steps are being taken to fire her, under
a UN claim that whether names of Uighur
dissidents were given to China is irrelevatn
to the case?
On UN sexual
exploitation and abuse -
alleged - this is a repeated
request on the new cases of UN
sex abuse in CAR by UN
"peacekeeping" troops from
Gabon and "the Congo" - and
Nepal peacekeeper child rape
in DRC - data-dumped at 10:07
am on July 21, 2021 that you
immediately provide the "if
asked" information which Inner
City Press already asked each
of your for without response
(cover up), also all those
earlier in July and the June
15 data-dumped cases none of
you have answered Inner City
Press on, also about case of
child rape in CAR by a Gabon
"peacekeeper," a UN civilian
child rape in DRC and a UN
civil sex abuse case in South
Sudan
Why is the
investigation of Fabrizio
Hochschild taking so long,
particularly in light of the
quotes attributed by the SG by
Swanson in the audio Inner
City Press exclusively
published
On Iran (and the
UN) what are the comments and
actions of SG Guterres, who
has refused to disclose UN and
UNFCU engagement with now
indicted Iranian lobbyist
Afrasiabi, on the July 13
criminal complaint against
four Iranians for plotting to
kidnap a prominent Iranian
opposition activist and writer
in exile, Brooklyn-based Masih
Alinejad, and take her back to
Tehran? Charged in SDNY are:
ALIREZA SHAVAROGHI FARAHANI,
KHAZEIN, KIYA SADEGHI, OMID
NOORI, and NILOUFAR
BAHADORIFAR.
As I asked
in writing on the morning of
July 6, without answer from
any of you, On UN sexual
exploitation and abuse -
alleged - this is a request on
the new
2021 UN sex abuse in DRC
and Haiti by UN "peacekeeping"
civilian international UN
staff members, including UN
Volunteers, with nationality
not given (alleged rape),
dumped at 10 am on July 6,
2021 that you immediately
provide the "if asked"
information, also the June 15
data-dumped cases none of you
have answered Inner City Press
on, also about case of child
rape in CAR by a Gabon
"peacekeeper," a UN civilian
child rape in DRC and a UN
civil sex abuse case in South
Sudan, all data dumped at
12:35 pm on Jan 5, 2021, ...
This is a request that you
immediately confirm receipt of
these questions and
requests. This is a
request that you immediately
confirm receipt of these
questions and requests and
explain how UN spox and
official blocking such
questions is not complicity
-Matthew Russell Lee,
InnerCityPress.com
As Inner City Press has asked
even before you banned it, state when Guterres
knew of charges against Hochschild, and what
"hands down the pants" case the OIOS
investigator told him about in the audio Inner
City Press exclusively published and asked you
about, here
On UN SEA,
immediately provide all
if-asked and other information
on this: On April 12,
2021 at 12:01 pm, the UN data
dumped additional instances:
sexual exploitation by UN
Police and Military from
Senegal in the Central African
Republic. Provide the if-asked
info, including anything done
for victims, immediately.
On
Honduras, given the March 22 guilty verdict in
SDNY court with defense lawyer telling Inner
City Press that President JOH has been or will
be indicted, here,
please immediately explain why SG Guterres'
representative in Honduras Mrs. Shackelford on
March 11 took and tweeted a selfie with a
Honduran military official. And, now UNICEF,
with JOH. In the closing argument on March 19
the prosecutor said corrupt Commissioner
Martinez was head of finance for the police,
helping drug traffickers, UN-trained.
On UN corruption and bribery, state whether
the UN has anyone monitoring the SDNY court
proceeding of UN bribery Heidi Piao on March 5
and if not, why not and either way, what are
the comments and actions of SG Guterres on
what was said including that Paio helped
Patrick Ho and CEFC China, and what Gulbenkian
(whose oil company CEFC tried to buy) was not
on Guterres' public financial disclosure
covering 2016
On the UN system
being unable or unwilling to
investigate corruption in its
ranks, including the "dollar a
year" people like Mike
Bloomberg and, reporting,
Irina Bokova at UNESCO, what
are SG Guterres' comments and
action on OIOS David Kanja
telling a whistleblower (who
in turn told Inner City Press)
this: "From: OIOS Hotline
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at
8:46 AM Subject: Re:
Allegation Report and Request
for Investigation Irina Bokova
and Kalin Mitev
Thank you for your additional
email dated 07 February 2021
to the Investigations
Division, Office of Internal
Oversight Services
(ID/OIOS).
Your report has been carefully
reviewed. Unfortunately, the
subject of your complaint
falls outside the mandate of
ID/OIOS, which deals with
misconduct matters involving
UN staff and resources. As
such, we are unable to assist
in your query."
Immediately
provide a complete list of all
dollar a year officials of the
UN system, specifically which
ones SG Guterres appointed or
re-appointed, and what
safeguards against corruption
and conflict of interest there
are.
Given that the
UNDT ordered destruction of
evidence concerning sexual
harassment inside the UN, why
is SG Guterres not waiving
immunity, instead having his
long time lawyer Miguel de
Serpa Soares write to UNAT:
"Mr. Lee also requests that
the UNAT issue an order
compelling the
Secretary-General to waive the
immunity of the presiding
judge in the hearing held in
Case No. UNDT/NY/2019/047, so
that Mr. Lee may bring action
against her in domestic
courts. The UNAT should reject
this request as not receivable
ratione materiae. The UNAT has
affirmed that issues relating
to the immunity of UN
officials, including officials
protected under Article VI,
Section 22(b) of the
Convention on the Privileges
and Immunities of the United
Nations, such as the UNDT and
UNAT Judges, are policy
decisions of the
Secretary-General which are
not justiciable"? On deadline.
On UN system
corruption, what are SG
Guterres comments and actions
if any on the UK's letter
saying that Inner City Press'
reporting uncovered over
$400,000 in fraud - and how
does he explain banning Inner
City Press from entering or
asking quesitons at the UN?
Isn't this just covering up
corruption? See, here.
Likewise on
Western Sahara, what is
Guterres response to this in published
interview: "under Ban Ki-moon,
and the tail end of Kofi
Annan's time when I first
arrived, I could ask questions
about Western Sahara in the UN
noon briefing, and at the UNSC
stakeout. Under Guterres, this
was blocked but he and Melissa
Fleming have allowed numerous
Morocco state media full
access and office space in the
UN.
Why does
Guterres' UN, unlike the IMF
even today, refuse to answer
Inner City Press' questions
about China? See Jan 8, 2021
IMF video of Inner City Press'
question on the Belt and Road
(CEFC) and African debt
levels, here.
What are the
comments and actions of SG
Guterres and separately USG
Fleming (who is cited in this
article) to this:
December 29, 2020, El Portal
Diplomatico, "The Moroccan
lobby at the UN and Guterres'
Communication team veto
journalist specialized in the
Sahrawi issue," "the new head
of the Secretary General's
Communication team, Melissa
Fleming, prevented the entry
of journalist Matthew Lee,
specialized in armed conflicts
and with more than 10 years of
journalistic work in the
Organization. Thus,
media such as Inner City Press
are censored"
What are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres, who has received
funds from Gulbenkian
Foundation which tried to sell
its oil company Partex to CEFC
China Energy (and whose
financial disclosure covering
2016 did not list the
Gulbenkian funds) to today's
news that that US Second
Circuit Court of Appeals has
upheld the conviction for UN
bribery of CEFC China Energy's
Chi Ping Patrick Ho? And
please disclose business
interests and trips of SG's
son Pedro.
After UNDT purported to order me
to destroy evidence of sexual harassment by UN
staff Padula, AGAIN what are the responses of
SG Guterres and his consigliere Soares, UN
General Counsel now that the appeal has been
acknowledged and said to be on ePortal with
case number? "Weicheng Lin 9:39 AM
Dear Mr. Lee, I acknowledge receipt of
your filing. Case: UNAT/2020/1502
Dear Respondents, We received an Appeal
of UNDT Orders 178 (NY/2020) and 179 (NY/2020)
filed by Mr. Lee on 21 December 2020.
Mr. Lee who is not a staff member nor a party
to the case of the Applicant filed an appeal
against these orders with the Appeals
Tribunal. The Registrar accepted the
submissions and instructed that they be
transmitted to the parties in the UNDT
proceedings, and the Secretary-General for
comments within 30 days."
How is it acceptable that each of your takes
public money and refuses to answer or even
acknowledge Press questions, including about
UN staff's sexual abuse?
On SG son Pedro
Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira
Guterres, explain how the
business of Explorer
Investments has been reviewed
for conflicts of interest.
Explain immediately how Pedro
Guterres doing business with
Rwanda while Antonio Guterres
was UNSG was and is not a
conflict, and what was
disclosed and to whom.
On Western Sahara
and Morocco what are the
comments and actions of any of
SG Guterres and separately the
UN Mission and non existent
Personl Envoy on that "On
Monday, November 16,
12-year-old Hayat, born
10/8/2008, was arrested while
attending classes at the
Al-Nahda school in occupied El
Aaiun and taken to the
Moroccan security
headquarters, where she was
subjected to torture
State whether SG Guterres, as he told FOSS,
went to Massachusetts and if so whether he
will stay there are least three days for
testing (and be tested if and when back),
under new NY rules
Immediately explain, given the Amir Dossal
was on board of Epstein's procurer Ghislaine
Maxwell's Terramar Project and Inner City
Press has repeatedly asked you each about in
writing, how Spokesman Dujarric's Oct 30 on
camera statement is not aware of any other
UN connection to Epstein, beyond IPI, was
and is not a lie and cover up.
Again, why did Guterres not list
Gulbenkian, linked to CEFC China Energy, in
his disclosure covering 2016? What are
Guterres' comments on IPI and Epstein, why
would he not say why he left the board? Why
has he not quit Club of Madrid? Why was Amir
Dossal on Board of Terramar of Ghislaine
Maxwell
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?
Immediate comments on the leaked
audio of OSSC Chediek Inner City Press
published Aug 5 on SoundCloud here
(1 of 6)
On Ghislaine Maxwell and UNEP's
Lisa Svensson, who has been exposed in SDNY
has saying the UN doesn't care about sex
trafficking, what is SG Guterres' response?
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
916+ days. What is the appeals
process? On
deadline."
More
here.
***
Your
support means a lot. As little as $5 a month
helps keep us going and grants you access to
exclusive bonus material on our Patreon
page. Click
here to become a patron.
Feedback:
Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA
Mail: Box 20047, Dag
Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017
Reporter's mobile (and weekends):
718-716-3540
Other, earlier Inner City Press are
listed here,
and some are available in the ProQuest
service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.
Copyright 2006-2021 Inner City
Press, Inc. To request reprint or other
permission, e-contact Editorial [at]
innercitypress.com for
|
,
