| Human
Rights Watch
Proud of
Bahrain Ban
But Colludes
in UN Ban of
Press Litmus
Test Failed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, March 10 –
Hypocrisy
and careerism
are nothing
new in the
UN. Now
Human Rights
Watch has a
new executive
director
Tirana Hassan
- and the
press
conference was
limited to
members of a
group with
Chinese state
media on its
board and
Iran's IRIB
as a member,
which worked
to throw the
Press out of
the UN, the
United Nations
Correspondents
Association.
That Tirana
Hassan was
colluding with
an
organization
which bans
Press -
actually two,
the UN and its
UN or UN
Censorship
Alliance - was
known to her:
she follows
Inner City
Press on
Twitter, and
her UN rep was
part of
getting Inner
City Press
ousted from
UNCA (for
exposing corruption
of the
organization's
then
President) and
then ousted
from the UN
(natch -
Antonio
Guterres' undisclosed
financial link
to bribery
firm CEFC
China Energy).
Now
on March 10
HRW trumpets
that two of
its staff have
been banned
from Bahrain.
Fine, we'll
report it. But
note that HRW
has been fine
with and
colluded in
the UN's ban
of Press.
This
UNCA and its
executive
committee
member are so
arrogant they
didn't even
respond to an
inquiry
about their
position on UN
access from
the Quinn
Emanuel law
firm,
representing
Inner City
Press pro
bono, here.
Birds of a
feather.
Here was the
promotion:
"Human Rights
Watch is
pleased to
invite members
of the United
Nations
Correspondents
Association to
an in-person
press
conference at
UN
Headquarters
on Thursday,
March 9, 2023,
at 2:00 p.m.
EST. In
her debut
press
appearance at
UN
headquarters,
Human Rights
Watch’s acting
executive
director,
Tirana Hassan,
will discuss
and take
questions on
the main human
rights
challenges for
2023. Who:
Tirana Hassan,
acting
executive
director Louis
Charbonneau,
UN
director
When:
Thursday,
March 9, 2023.
Where: UNCA
Room (S-310)
at UN
Headquarters.
This press
conference is
open to all
UNCA members."
Open to UNCA
members,
largely state
media and
retirees.
HRW's UN rep
also worked
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the UN, and
made false
copyright claims to cover
up his
role. Will
Tirana Hassan
be any
different? An
appeal is
pending, here
- it is a
litmus case.
This is
today's UN -
hours after
the event,
there was no
video, and
that only
story from an
aggregation
site and only
on Nicaragua.
They claim
they spoke on
China - in
secret, to a
group with
CCTV on the
board.
Corrupt.
***
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