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UNSC Prez Tunisia Bans Press For Guterres
Tear Gasses Protesters In Tunis and Gafsa
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Jan
18 – In the United
Nations from which SG Antonio
Guterres has banned Inner City
Press 930 days for asking
about his complicity in the
killing of civilians in
Cameroon, poisoning them in
Haiti with cholera and COVID
in South Sudan, and their mass
imprisonment by China in
Xinjiang, on January 4 Inner
City Press wrote to the
Mission of Tunisia, as
incoming UN Security Council
president, with questions
including about Ethiopia,
Western Sahara, Haiti, Yemen
and Cameroon.
Inner City
Press specifically asked to be
provided the WebEx codes to be
able to ask its questions. No
answer.
But three
hours later when Tunisia's
Ambassador Tarek Labed took
questions, his spokesperson
took them in groups of four --
without protest from the
increasingly pathetic UNCA UN
press corpse -- allowing Labed
to evade even the questions
that were asked.
On on
January 16 with Inner City
Press still banned, no one has
asked Tunisia about this:
Tunisian police arrested
hundreds of people at protests
in recent days over the
government’s failure to
redress economic and political
grievances. The army has
deployed troops in several
cities, including Tunis, to
try to stop the looting of
shops and banks and attacks on
public buildings.
Defying a curfew imposed to
contain the spread of COVID,
protesters gathered in Tunis
late Sunday while riots rocked
cities including Kasserine,
Bizerte, Gafsa and Sidi
Bouzi...
On January 4, no
one allowed in asked about
Cameroon, just the way
Guterres wants it. The answer
is clearly no. This is
shameful. But will the five
incoming UNSC members - India,
Ireland, Mexico, Kenya and
Norway - do their jobs of
openness to the Press and
public? We will be asking.
For now
Inner City Press, which will
report all month about the
UNSC with or seemingly without
any Tunisia or Labed access,
posted the Program of Work here
and notes for example "Wester
Africa" - that would / should
include Cameroon - on January
11, Yemen on January 14,
League of Arab States on
January 18, Syria on January
20, Colombia on January 21,
and January 26 on the Middle
East. Labed said two meetings
will be in person - this as
Guterres violated COVID
quarantine rules. Today's UN
is corrupt.
Inner City Press streamed some
of the Press-less presser, here.
Among those "given the
floor" by Tunisia, while
banning Inner City Press, were
state media from Pakistan, a
retiree of a decade, and
others.
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane
Dujarric holds his noon
briefings this month while
refusing all questions from
Inner City Press despite an on
camera promise.
And Tunisia and Labed? We'll
report.
Watch this site.
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