| Amid Burma
Coup Journalist Fenster Sentenced to 11
Years UN Guterres Silent As He Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint
BBC
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UK - Honduras
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UN GATE, Nov 12 –
After the Burma coup regime
fired its New York-based UN
ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun for
his speech in New York in the
usually scripted and now COVID
positive UN General Assembly,
UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres,
bragged about the session and
grabbed five more years.
Now
Guterres who has banned the
Press from the UN is silent as
the regime in Burma imposes a
lengthy jail sentence on
another American
journalist: Danny
Fenster, sentenced to 11 years
in prison on multiple charges
including incitement, unlawful
association, and visa
violations. The trial was held
at Yangon’s Insein Prison,
where Fenster is being
detained, and was closed to
the press and public, like the
UN's pro-Guterres Appeals
Tribunal.
His lawyer, Than
Zaw Aung, said Fenster was
sentenced to the maximum term
of each charge.
Fenster,
managing editor of Frontier
Myanmar, has been detained in
Insein Prison since May 24,
when he was arrested at Yangon
International Airport while
attempting to travel to his
home in Detroit. Fenster also
faces terrorism and sedition
charges, which carry maximum
10- and 20-year prison
sentences, respectively. His
trial on those charges will
begin on November 16. Watch
this site.
Earlier Guterres
envoy on Myanmar, Christine
Schraner Burgener, bragged at
a stakeout Inner City Press
was banned from that the
people in Myanmar all know her
and she would give them hope.
Why?
On November 10,
under Mexico which refused
Press questions about Burma on
November 1, this whisper from
the UNSC: "The Members of the
Security Council expressed
deep concern at further recent
violence across Myanmar...
They encouraged
complementarity between the UN
Special Envoy and ASEAN
efforts." The pro-junta UN
Special Envoy?
In October, with
Guterres still silent and
still banning Inner City
Press, he has named "Noeleen
Heyzer of Singapore as his new
Special Envoy on Myanmar."
Inner City Press previously,
before being banned by
Guterres, reported here
that "ESCAP chief Noeleen
Heyzer has made comments
viewed as favorable to the
still military dominated
government of Myanmar."
Guterres is killing the UN.
On August 6 this:
Criminal complaint on Inner
City Press' DocumentCloud here:
the arrests of PHYO HEIN HTUT
and YE HEIN ZAW for conspiracy
to assault and make a violent
attack upon Myanmar’s
Permanent Representative to
the United Nations [Kyaw Moe
Tun]. HTUT and ZAW were
charged in two separate
complaints... Between
at least in or about July 2021
through at least on or about
August 5, 2021, HTUT and ZAW,
citizens of Myanmar currently
residing in New York,
conspired to injure or kill
Myanmar’s Permanent
Representative to the UN."
Inner City Press
exclusively live tweeted Zaw's
detention hearing, here,
story here.
Now, song / video here.
But the UN of Guterres and
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming refuse to answer any
of Inner City Press' written
questions - and when asked
orally by another, Dujarric
confirmed receipt of the Quinn
Emanuel law firm's letter but
said no change of status and
so far no reply, video here.
Guterres removed
Burma's or Myanmar's army from
the UN "list of shame" for
recruiting and using child
soldiers, despite more than
200 cases. Emboldened by
corrupt Guterres, they are
recruiting and using even
more. Now a call for Guterres,
trying to steal a second term,
to reinstate them on the list
- but from a group which seems
to join Guterres in banning
Inner City Press from (its)
press conference.
After
Guterres and his spokespeople
dodged about who is Burma's
ambassador -- eager to get
China's support for a second
term, taking the US for
granted -- this from the US
Mission: "Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield met
virtually this afternoon with
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun,
Permanent Representative of
the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar to the UN. Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield commended
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun for
his courageous and
compassionate statement at the
UN General Assembly informal
meeting on Burma last week and
expressed the United States’
support for the people of
Burma and the restoration of
the democratically-elected
government."
Dujarric,
while taking public money to
work for the UN, says he is
the spokesman for the
incumbent, like part of a
political campaign. We'll have
more on this.
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