UN
Bans Inner City Press Despite
RSVP From Event on Banks and
Slavery Corruption of Guterres
DSG Smale CdC Smale
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, September 24 – For
an event in the UN for a
Financial Sector Commission on
Modern Slavery and Human
Trafficking, Inner City Press
was on September 24 singled
out and banned, despite having
its RSVP accepted by the
Mission of Liechtstein and
even UN University. Video
here.
The event ran
from 3:30 to 5 pm in the UN's
Trusteeship Chamber. Inner
City Prss arrived 45 minutes
early to the NYPD security
checkpoint at 46th Street and
Second Avenue. Its ticket was
accepted by NYPD, it prepared
to audio record the event --
but at the UN Visitors
Entrance a large UN Security
Officer or Capitan nicknamed
Tiny said No, it was his
understanding that Inner City
Press is entirely banned from
the UN, not only as a
journalist. "You have a
current active barred notice
against you," he said. Audio here.
Inner City Press
asked him if this came from
the boss of the Department
Safety and Security Peter
Drennan, who has not responded
to Inner City Press formal
complaint to him that it was
assaulted by UN DSS Lieutenant
Ronald E. Dobbins on July 3.
He said it was not from chief
Michael “Mick” Brown. Who
then? He refused to say. “You
have to call DPI,” he said,
referring to the Department of
Public Information whose chief
Alison Smale has not answered
a single on of Inner City
Press' more than 10 e-mails.
Inner City Press called the
office of Secretary General
Antonio Guterres' chief of
staff Maria Luiz Viotti and
informed them; they said that
she would be told. Hours
later, nothing. Inner City
Press called the office of the
Deputy Secretary General Amina
J. Mohammed, and was told that
the head of office, seemingly
Nelson Muffuh, could or would
do nothing. Then Inner City
Press called the office of
Alison Smale, where a person
named Charlotte said she would
look into and call back. Hours
later, nothing. Audio of Inner
City Press' side of calls, here.
Inner City Press was never
given a hearing by Smale
before her August 17 letter
with withdrew Inner City Press
media accreditation. Nothing
in it said anything about a
ban from entering the UN as a
person, a tourist, or in
another other way. But this is
what happened, without any
recourse. Pure Kafka-esque
censorship, by a former New
York Times Berlin bureau chief
to hinder coverage of the
corruption of the former
Portuguese prime minster
Antonio Guterres, see
September 23 New York Post
here. What next? Watch
this site.
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