| On Zimbabwe Jailed
Journalist Inner City Press Asked UN Guterres
No Reply But Al Jazeera Scam
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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COURT, July 25 – On Zimbabwe,
on July 23 Inner City Press
formally submitted
a question to United Nations
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
as well as UNSG Antonio
Guterres and his politburo:
"On Zimbabwe,
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
on that Hopewell Chin'ono, an
award-winning Zimbabwean
journalist and government
critic, has been charged with
incitement to violence in a
magistrates' court in the
capital, Harare. He did not
enter a plea. Prosecutor
Whisper Mabhaudhi accused Mr
Chin'ono of inciting
Zimbabweans to join a planned
anti-government protest during
the coronavirus outbreak,
which showed "no regard for
human life." Mr Chin'ono's
lawyers complained about the
circumstances of his arrest on
Monday and his stay in
custody. A video clip
recorded at the journalist's
house showed the remains of
the glass door that police
smashed in order to gain
entry."
Dujarric refused to answer,
and no one let into the UN's
Zoom / WebEx noon briefing on
July 23 and July 24, including
Al Jazeera English's James
Bays and SABC laughing about
Mkapa, asked about Zimbabwe.
Video here.
But on July 25
when Qatar royal family owned
and controlled Al Jazeera
reporting on Zimbabwe, it
claimed the UN had strongly
criticized Zimbabwe for
locking up a journalist. This
is intentional misinformation
of the public, from a media
which colluded with the UN to
get the Press roughed up and banned
from the UN. We'll have more
on this.
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