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    Inner City Press was only only provided with this letter on June 16, 2016; two day before it published the below, more on InnerCityPress.com Ban Ki-moon's UN Evicted Investigative Press on False Pretenses, Here's How By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, June 14 -- How does the UN under Ban Ki-moon and his "Public Information" chief Cristina Gallach pretextually evict the critical Press from its long time office and confine it to minders, hindering further reporting on their corruption? This UN "Aide Memoire," which Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric called "leaked" and refused to answer questions on, shows how. First, Ban's spokesman Dujarric made a non-public deal on January 26 with Giampaolo Pioli of the UN Correspondents Association to privatize the UN Press Briefing Room on January 29 - but not tell anyone it was private. Next, when Inner City Press which quit UNCA in 2012 finding it too close to Ban and corrupt, for example Pioli's unilateral granting of a "UN" screening for Sri Lanka's war crimes denial film at the request of its Ambassador Palitha Kohona who had been Pioli's tenant, click here, appeared to cover the event, get Dujarric to order Inner City Press to leave, without showing any paperwork. After Inner City Press, as it said it would, left as soon as a single UN Security guard said to, conspire with Under Secretary General Gallach, whom Inner City Press had previously questioned about her role in the Ban's Ng Lap Seng UN bribery scandal, to issue a letter on February 19 telling Inner City Press to leave its office and the building on two hours notice - without once speaking to Inner City Press. Throw Inner City Press in the streets, audio here, evict its ten years of investigative files from its office, video here, then just before Inner City Press could re-apply for its stolen office, gave it to an Egyptian state media, Akhbar Elyom, whose correspondents Sanaa Youssef, a former UNCA president, has not anywhere near met the UN's stated three day a week requirement for such an office, and who never asks questions. To top it off, leave South South News, founded with Ng Lap Seng's money and by Francis Lorenzo, who has pleaded guilty to UN bribery charges, with its office and Resident Correspondent accreditation. See Courthouse News, here. Thus the investigative Press is punished, publicly, and a chilling message sent to anyone else who might dare to cover Ban Ki-moon's role in the corruption scandal, while he seeks to run for the South Korean presidency in 2017. This Ban, or his spokesman, coyly denies of course. Of the retaliatory eviction, Ban said “that is not my decision.” But it is. He was set extensive information, including the total inconsistency of what Gallach told Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta when he inquired for Inner City Press (she said she ouster order was based on an “internal report”) and what the UN told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (that the UN has “no records” that the meeting was closed. Ban Ki-moon is responsible; he has created an atmosphere of retaliation, has retained and empowered Under Secretaries General like Herve Ladsous, who linked rapes to R&R and openly refuses Press questions, and Gallach. We'll have more on this: it must be reversed. For ten years as Inner City Press covered the UN in ever greater detail, showing Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Herve Ladsous' inept overseeing and cover up of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers, disparate treatment in Mali, dalliance with genocide in Sri Lanka and prospectively Burundi, impunity for cholera deaths in Haiti and until now for UN lead poisoning in Kosovo and cravenly pro-Saudi position on Yemen amid the airstrikes (BBC this week here from Min 6:18), it was never thrown out of the UN. Now in 2016, Ban Ki-moon's last year at the UN, it has been. New York Times of May 14 here. The issue is to be raised at the UN Human Rights Council this coming we

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    Inner City Press was only only provided with this letter on June 16, 2016; two day before it published the below, more on InnerCityPress.com Ban Ki-moon's UN Evicted Investigative Press on False Pretenses, Here's How By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, June 14 -- How does the UN under Ban Ki-moon and his "Public Information" chief Cristina Gallach pretextually evict the critical Press from its long time office and confine it to minders, hindering further reporting on their corruption? This UN "Aide Memoire," which Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric called "leaked" and refused to answer questions on, shows how. First, Ban's spokesman Dujarric made a non-public deal on January 26 with Giampaolo Pioli of the UN Correspondents Association to privatize the UN Press Briefing Room on January 29 - but not tell anyone it was private. Next, when Inner City Press which quit UNCA in 2012 finding it too close to Ban and corrupt, for example Pioli's unilateral granting of a "UN" screening for Sri Lanka's war crimes denial film at the request of its Ambassador Palitha Kohona who had been Pioli's tenant, click here, appeared to cover the event, get Dujarric to order Inner City Press to leave, without showing any paperwork. After Inner City Press, as it said it would, left as soon as a single UN Security guard said to, conspire with Under Secretary General Gallach, whom Inner City Press had previously questioned about her role in the Ban's Ng Lap Seng UN bribery scandal, to issue a letter on February 19 telling Inner City Press to leave its office and the building on two hours notice - without once speaking to Inner City Press. Throw Inner City Press in the streets, audio here, evict its ten years of investigative files from its office, video here, then just before Inner City Press could re-apply for its stolen office, gave it to an Egyptian state media, Akhbar Elyom, whose correspondents Sanaa Youssef, a former UNCA president, has not anywhere near met the UN's stated three day a week requirement for such an office, and who never asks questions. To top it off, leave South South News, founded with Ng Lap Seng's money and by Francis Lorenzo, who has pleaded guilty to UN bribery charges, with its office and Resident Correspondent accreditation. See Courthouse News, here. Thus the investigative Press is punished, publicly, and a chilling message sent to anyone else who might dare to cover Ban Ki-moon's role in the corruption scandal, while he seeks to run for the South Korean presidency in 2017. This Ban, or his spokesman, coyly denies of course. Of the retaliatory eviction, Ban said “that is not my decision.” But it is. He was set extensive information, including the total inconsistency of what Gallach told Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta when he inquired for Inner City Press (she said she ouster order was based on an “internal report”) and what the UN told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (that the UN has “no records” that the meeting was closed. Ban Ki-moon is responsible; he has created an atmosphere of retaliation, has retained and empowered Under Secretaries General like Herve Ladsous, who linked rapes to R&R and openly refuses Press questions, and Gallach. We'll have more on this: it must be reversed. For ten years as Inner City Press covered the UN in ever greater detail, showing Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Herve Ladsous' inept overseeing and cover up of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers, disparate treatment in Mali, dalliance with genocide in Sri Lanka and prospectively Burundi, impunity for cholera deaths in Haiti and until now for UN lead poisoning in Kosovo and cravenly pro-Saudi position on Yemen amid the airstrikes (BBC this week here from Min 6:18), it was never thrown out of the UN. Now in 2016, Ban Ki-moon's last year at the UN, it has been. New York Times of May 14 here. The issue is to be raised at the UN Human Rights Council this coming we

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    Eviction of Inner City Press Inquired Into by UN Rapporteurs On Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Defenders, Feb 25, 2016: UN Delayed Then Dissembled

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    Matthew Russell Lee
    Inner City Press was only only provided with this letter on June 16, 2016; two day before it published the below, more on InnerCityPress.com Ban Ki-moon's UN Evicted Investigative Press on False Pretenses, Here's How By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, June 14 -- How does the UN under Ban Ki-moon and his "Public Information" chief Cristina Gallach pretextually evict the critical Press from its long time office and confine it to minders, hindering further reporting on their corruption? This UN "Aide Memoire," which Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric called "leaked" and refused to answer questions on, shows how. First, Ban's spokesman Dujarric made a non-public deal on January 26 with Giampaolo Pioli of the UN Correspondents Association to privatize the UN Press Briefing Room on January 29 - but not tell anyone it was private. Next, when Inner City Press which quit UNCA in 2012 finding it too close to Ban and corrupt, for example Pioli's unilateral granting of a "UN" screening for Sri Lanka's war crimes denial film at the request of its Ambassador Palitha Kohona who had been Pioli's tenant, click here, appeared to cover the event, get Dujarric to order Inner City Press to leave, without showing any paperwork. After Inner City Press, as it said it would, left as soon as a single UN Security guard said to, conspire with Under Secretary General Gallach, whom Inner City Press had previously questioned about her role in the Ban's Ng Lap Seng UN bribery scandal, to issue a letter on February 19 telling Inner City Press to leave its office and the building on two hours notice - without once speaking to Inner City Press. Throw Inner City Press in the streets, audio here, evict its ten years of investigative files from its office, video here, then just before Inner City Press could re-apply for its stolen office, gave it to an Egyptian state media, Akhbar Elyom, whose correspondents Sanaa Youssef, a former UNCA president, has not anywhere near met the UN's stated three day a week requirement for such an office, and who never asks questions. To top it off, leave South South News, founded with Ng Lap Seng's money and by Francis Lorenzo, who has pleaded guilty to UN bribery charges, with its office and Resident Correspondent accreditation. See Courthouse News, here. Thus the investigative Press is punished, publicly, and a chilling message sent to anyone else who might dare to cover Ban Ki-moon's role in the corruption scandal, while he seeks to run for the South Korean presidency in 2017. This Ban, or his spokesman, coyly denies of course. Of the retaliatory eviction, Ban said “that is not my decision.” But it is. He was set extensive information, including the total inconsistency of what Gallach told Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta when he inquired for Inner City Press (she said she ouster order was based on an “internal report”) and what the UN told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (that the UN has “no records” that the meeting was closed. Ban Ki-moon is responsible; he has created an atmosphere of retaliation, has retained and empowered Under Secretaries General like Herve Ladsous, who linked rapes to R&R and openly refuses Press questions, and Gallach. We'll have more on this: it must be reversed. For ten years as Inner City Press covered the UN in ever greater detail, showing Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Herve Ladsous' inept overseeing and cover up of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers, disparate treatment in Mali, dalliance with genocide in Sri Lanka and prospectively Burundi, impunity for cholera deaths in Haiti and until now for UN lead poisoning in Kosovo and cravenly pro-Saudi position on Yemen amid the airstrikes (BBC this week here from Min 6:18), it was never thrown out of the UN. Now in 2016, Ban Ki-moon's last year at the UN, it has been. New York Times of May 14 here. The issue is to be raised at the UN Human Rights Council this coming we

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    HAUT-COMMISSARIAT AUX DROITS DE LHOMME OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

    PALAIS DES NATIONS 1211 GENEVA 10, SWITZERLAND

    Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of
    opinion and expression and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
    REFERENCE: AL
    OTH 15/2016:

    25 February 2016
    Dear Ms. Gallach,
    We have the honour to address you in our capacities as Special Rapporteur on the
    promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and Special
    Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders pursuant to Human Rights Council
    resolutions 25/2 and 25/18.
    In this connection, we would like to bring to your attention information we have
    received concerning the withdrawal of the accreditation of Mr. Matthew Lee, an
    investigative journalist with Inner City Press, a web journal reporting on issues
    related to United Nations.
    According to the information received:
    On 19 February 2016, Mr. Matthew Lee received a letter, in which the Under
    Secretary General for Communications and Public Information informs him of the
    Department of Public Informations (DPI) decision to withdraw his Resident
    Correspondent accreditation at the United Nations office in New York in favour
    of non-Resident Correspondent, a status that would be renewable after an initial
    four-month period. The letter further informed him of the need to vacate his
    present office inside the UN and arrange for a new identification corresponding to
    his new status.
    Later in the day, UN Security personnel removed Mr. Lees identification and
    escorted him out of the UN headquarters. His laptop was allegedly tossed out of
    the gate onto the sidewalk. Mr. Lees working files remained within the UN
    premises.
    The steps taken against Mr. Lees accreditation were, according to the letter he
    received, based upon an incident that occurred on Friday, 29 January 2016, which
    DPI allegedly determined was in violation of the United Nations Media
    Guidelines. On that date, Mr. Lees allegedly tried to cover a meeting in the UN

    Press Briefing Room, from where he left after being informed by the UN Security
    of its restricted nature. Allegedly, no information was requested from Mr. Lee or
    any other written communication was sent to him on this incident, until the receipt
    of the letter on 19 February.
    Without prejudging the accuracy of this information and the pertinent
    accreditation procedures within the United Nations and while respecting the critical role
    of DPI in providing access to information within the UN system, we are nonetheless
    interested in understanding how the rules governing media access operate to advance the
    principles of access to information and press freedom and how the rules were applied in
    this particular case.
    We would also be grateful for your observations on the following matters:
    1.
    Please provide any additional information and any comments you may
    have on the above-mentioned allegations.
    2.
    Could you please clarify the reasons for the withdrawal of the
    accreditation of Mr. Lees resident correspondent accreditation at the United Nations?
    Please also provide relevant rules from the Media Guidelines that were applied to this
    situation.
    3.
    Could you please describe the inquiry procedures pursued following the
    incident, which led to the withdrawal of Mr. Lees accreditation?
    4.
    Could you please indicate whether Mr. Lee, or other journalists similarly
    situated, are permitted leave to appeal against a decision to withdraw accreditation (or
    other such actions)?
    We wish to inform you that this communication together with your response will
    be made available in a report to be presented to the Human Rights Council for its
    consideration.
    Please accept, Ms. Gallach, the assurances of our highest consideration.
    David Kaye
    Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion
    and expression
    Michel Forst
    Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

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