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Whistleblower Reilly Was Fired By Guterres
Now Australian Judge Calls Out Coup d'Etat
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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UN GATE, March 19
– In the UN of Antonio
Guterres, those who ask about
his undisclosed links to
Chinese bribery firm CEFC
China Energy, or or blow the
whistle on the UN given China
the names of Uighur witnesses,
get physically thrown out and
banned, or in the case of
staff,
fired.
Inner City
Press, which asked Guterres'
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming each
weekday in August and
September about the slow
motion firing of whistleblower
Emma Reilly, on the morning of
November 10, 2021 published an
answer from her, below, and
emailed a question about it to
Guterres and his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric.
While
refusing to answer Inner City
Press written questions
despite an on
camera (broken) promise
to do so, Dujarric told those
he let into his briefing that
Reilly is NOT a whistleblower,
and that the UN will not talk
about "private" communications
- i.e., firing her.
Now in March
2022, Dujarric who refuses all
written questions from Inner
City Press has lied again.
See: "Rowan Downing, past
President of the UN Dispute
Tribunal and a former
international war crimes
judge, oversaw the case of
Emma Reilly, a UN human rights
officer-turned whistleblower,
after she accused her employer
of handing
Beijing the names of
Uighur and other Chinese
dissidents set to speak at the
UN Human Rights Council. Judge
Rowan Downing had his
appointment terminated by the
UN. He said that his two
judgments relating to Reilly’s
case in the internal UN
Dispute Tribunal were “within
10 days of being released”
when he was dismissed in 2019
and this “was probably known
to management”. The
69-year-old’s comments during
the hearings were critical of
Reilly’s treatment by the
UN.“It’s the sort of conduct
that happens possibly
following a coup – a coup
d’etat – where people want to
get rid of judges quickly,”
Downing said of his dismissal.
“It was, in fact, an attack
upon the independence of the
judiciary because… no
nation-state would be able to
acceptably do that.”China has
put the UN at the centre of
its global diplomacy plans.
Beijing is now the UN’s
second-largest financier, UN
Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres was the guest of
honour alongside Vladimir
Putin at the Beijing Winter
Olympics
[Click here
for Genocide
Games of Guterres]
Downing’s
comments were first made in an
interview in March last year
but can only now be made
public by The Sydney
Morning
Herald and The
Age. China has spent the
past decade steadily building
its influence within the
United Nations and now
controls three of its top
agency posts, while the United
States leads four.The UN has
been criticised by human
rights groups for not being
able to get independent
inspectors into Xinjiang and
for failing to pass Security
Council resolutions addressing
allegations of human rights
abuse in China.AdvertisementIn
his first judgment, Downing
ruled partially in Reilly’s
favour, ordering an
investigation into her
“complaint of abuse of
authority”, while also
criticising Guterres’ handling
of her case. Guterres, Downing
said, failed to properly
address Reilly’s complaint and
unlawfully deferred the UN’s
consideration of the
matter.Downing said to his
knowledge and that of “anybody
else in the organisation” with
whom he discussed the issue,
Reilly’s case is “the only
[whistleblower] case … where
the Secretary-General had
personally intervened”.
During the
hearing, Downing criticised
Guterres for putting a “spin
on what has occurred, such
that the applicant [Reilly] is
being portrayed as an
unreasonable person, and that
concerns me”.UN spokesman
Stephane Dujarric rejected
claims that Guterres had
personally intervened in
Reilly’s case.Dujarric said
Downing was replaced by the
General Assembly and not by
the Secretary-General. “He
played no role in it,” he
said. “We reject Judge
Downing’s claim outright.”
We'll see -
Dujarric previously said
he would be answering
Inner City Press' written
questions after he had it
thrown out of the UN for Guterres,
with Guterres - and has
stopped. It has been, then, a
lie.
See here,
new Inner City Press song
Reilly to Inner
City Press: "I was
retrospectively placed on
special leave with full pay
from the moment the UN sent
armed police to invade my
home. They stopped even
pretending I had functions -
why bother, when they can just
fire any judge at the Tribunal
who isn't willing to simply
copy-paste their
position?
And I was fired
for daring to tell the truth.
I am not and have never been
accused of lying about this
policy, just of revealing it
and trying to warn people. The
UN "anonymous" source in Le
Monde (Eric Tistounet) all but
admits the destruction of
evidence I've reported -
sorry, but a list of names
handed over was allegedly
stolen? Did the dog eat the
UN's homework, too?
I, of course,
dutifully reported that
directly to the
Secretary-General yesterday.
The UN has absolutely no idea
how many times names were
handed over, whose names were
transmitted, and whether it
continues. Names appear to be
now given orally. Still nobody
thinks that it's worth
investigating why this policy
was put in place.
Guterres told me in a personal
email once that he would see
what he could do about my case
with the "people in charge."
His words. I guess the Chinese
delegation gave its
orders.
There isn't an amount of money
on earth that I could be paid
to be complicit in torture and
genocide.
The UN considers
my lack of "remorse" for that
an aggravating factor
justifying my immediate
dismissal. I have a
message for UN managers. I no
longer have immunity. Sue me
for defamation if you pretend
anything I have ever said is
untrue. I will certainly be
suing those who lied about
me. And you can quote me
on all of
that."
This is today's
UN under Guterres: absolutely
corrupt. Inner City Press has
applied to re-enter and cover
it as closely as it does the
SDNY court these days; a
polite letter to this effect
from law firm Quinn Emanuel
has yet to be answered by
Fleming or any of her allies
in censorship. Watch this site
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