| Qatar
Has
Whistleblower
in Solitary
for Kick Off
as Bans
Filming Of
Migrant
Workers It
Kills
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, Nov 16 –
For
the FIFA World
Cup that Qatar
paid bribes to
get, it issued
restrictions
on the media
that go to
cover it,
including that
journalists
will not be
allowed to
film or
photograph in
"residential
properties,
private
businesses and
industrial
zones."
Reporting on
the deaths of
migrant
workers is not
permitted.
Nor
is blowing the
whistle. Not
only jailed,
but now in
solitary
confinement is
whistleblower
Abdullah
Ibhais, a
former Media
Manager within
Qatar’s World
Cup organising
committee, the
Supreme
Committee for
"Delivery and
Legacy." He
had filmed the
plight of
migrant
workers in the
Al-Shahaniya
labour camp
outside Doha.
Qatar
also bans
filming in
“restricted
areas where
filming
requires prior
permission”
and at “any
site with
signage or
security
advising of no
photography/videography."
Some
who are
criticizing
these
restrictions,
however, say
nothing when
the United
Nations does
the same.
Consider the
reasons given
by UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric for
having Inner
City Press
roughed up and
banned from
the UN, for
three years
and counting,
from CJR:
"access
is not a
right, it’s a
privilege,”
Dujarric says.
“None of this
is happening
now because of
what he
writes.”
Dujarric says
that Lee is
often critical
of fellow
journalists;
walking the
halls in the
evenings,
he’ll
live-stream
running
commentary
criticizing
other
reporters. Not
long ago,
encountering a
crew from Al
Jazeera—which
Lee believes
has misled
viewers about
its connection
to the Qatari
government—Dujarric
says that Lee
Periscoped
while
shouting,
“Fuck you!”
repeatedly.
(Lee says he
was
complaining
that Dujarric
had given the
Al Jazeera
crew a private
interview, and
excluded him.)
“He creates an
atmosphere of
incivility
within our
working
environment,”
Dujarric
says."
So
Inner City
Press is
banned by
MALU's Melissa
Fleming -- no
solidarity for
other "Media
Managers," or
anyone else -
because it
filmed on the
fourth (media)
floor, and for
what it said?
We plan to
publish some
of the
streams.
Or
for
criticizing
his and
Guterres'
relations with
Qatar's Al
Jazeera, which
got the
exclusive to
Guterres' two
stolen UNSG
elections?
We'll
have more on
this.
***
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