By Matthew Russell Lee, Audio
UNITED NATIONS, March 28, 2023 – The UN maintains a secret list of people banned from entering its premises. Even the Security officers who enforce the ban are not told the reason why a person is on the list: whether it was for actual violence, or writing articles questioning the Secretary General Antonio Guterres' misuse of public funds, for example.
Earlier this month on a publicly funded junket, on which he has been meeting and smiling with US-listed terrorists, Guterres went to Iraq - not earthquake struck Turkey much less Syria - where he took a smiling selfie with Rayan Al Kildani — US-designated human rights abuser and US designated terrorist Qais Al Khazali. Photo here. Meanwhile US Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield keep praising Guterres, and doing nothing about his ban of US-based Inner City Press. The most corrupt Secretary General ever. And the most hypocritical:
On March 28, Guterres bloviated about "Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism" -- "Terrorism tightens its grip by promoting lies, hatred and disinformation in cyberspace and by flouting or ignoring the rule of law, from international human rights law" - this from a censor.
On February 13, 2023, Inner City Press which reports closely on UN corruption and failures, with sources all over the world, received from the UN without further explanation and no due process this:
"From: noreply at un dot org Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:32 AM Subject: [Indico] Accreditation declined To: Matthew dot Lee at Inner City Press dot com
Dear Matthew Lee, We regret to inform you that Your accreditation for the accreditation type Media under Matthew Lee is now declined.
To manage your accreditation follow this link: Manage my accreditation This is an automated email. For inquiries, contact the www.un.org/malu. malu@un.org +1 (212) 963-6934"
This while Guterres is wasting public money with three March 28 photo ops -- Alberto Fernández (President, REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (President, REPUBLIC OF GHANA) and Azali Assoumani (President, UNION OF THE COMOROS)
Earlier, one told Inner City Press the secret list includes "demonstrators" and "political activists," audio here.
In 2021, Guetrres and his head of Media Accreditation Melissa Fleming refused to answer a polite letter from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel. On December 2, 2022 I was banned from PGA Csaba Korosi's "Civil Society Town Hall" - his spokesperson Paulina Kubiak emerged to say an appeal to DSS was possible. It was filed on December 5 - but not even any confirmation of receipt. The UN has become North Korea under Guterres, and the UN press corpse / UN Censorship Alliance (UNCA) is complicit.
Another UN Security officer told me, No one is going to help you. You are on the list. I asked him, who else is on the list? He mentioned “demonstrators” and "political activists" and others. Audio here.
Tellingly, NOT on Guterres' banned list are those who pleaded guilty to UN bribery for example in the Ng Lap Seng - John Ashe case. They are not banned by Guterres, UNlike the journalist who most closely covered those convictions, and the current UN bribery case of Patrick Ho and the China Energy Fund Committee. Guterres is fine with bribery, but bans those who investigate and expose it.
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