Click for March 1, 2011 BloggingHeads.tv re Libya, Sri Lanka, UN Corruption by Inner City Press   Music Video: Guterres Must Go
See, in November 2021, Inner City Press' book "Belt and Roadkill," here  Song of March 19, 2022

March 27, 2023

On Burma Murder Plot With UN Link Htut Wants a Deposition in Myanmar or White Plains

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint

UN GATE, March 23 – After the Burma coup regime purported to fired its New York-based UN ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun for his speech in New York in the usually scripted UN General Assembly, two Burmese were criminally charged with trying to kill him. One was been detained, as exclusively live tweeted by Inner City Press, below.

On August 11, 20 year-old Ye Hein Zaw, who with a Burmese interpreter got his income approved on April 6 as low enough for free counsel hired a private attorney, one who is described as a Wall Street lawyer half of whose clients are French: Matthew Galluzzo.

 On December 10, a guilty plea: today the guilty plea of YE HEIN ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar, for his role in a conspiracy to assault and make a violent attack upon Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.  ZAW pled guilty today in White Plains federal court before U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern.                 U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As he admitted in court today, Ye Hein Zaw participated in a plot to injure or kill Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in a planned attack that was to take place on American soil.  Zaw now awaits sentencing for his crime.  I commend the tireless efforts of our law enforcement partners at all levels of government to ensure the safety of foreign diplomats and officials in the United States and bring the perpetrators of this plot to justice.”                 According to the Information to which ZAW pled guilty, the complaint that was filed in this case, and statements made during court proceedings:                 Between at least in or about July 2021 through at least on or about August 5, 2021, ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar residing in New York, conspired with others to injure or kill Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (the “Ambassador”).  During the conspiracy, a co-conspirator communicated with an arms dealer in Thailand (the “Arms Dealer”) who sells weapons to the Burmese military, which overthrew Myanmar’s civilian government in or about February 2021.  In the course of those conversations, the co-conspirator and the Arms Dealer agreed on a plan in which the co-conspirator would hire attackers to hurt the Ambassador in an attempt to force the Ambassador to step down from his post.  If the Ambassador did not step down, then the Arms Dealer proposed that the attackers hired by the co-conspirator would kill the Ambassador.                 Shortly after agreeing on the plan, ZAW contacted the co-conspirator by cellphone and, using a money transfer app, transferred approximately $4,000 to the co-conspirator as an advance payment on the plot to attack the Ambassador.  Later, during a recorded phone conversation, ZAW and the co-conspirator discussed how the planned attackers would require an additional $1,000 to conduct the attack on the Ambassador in Westchester County, and, for an additional payment, the attackers could, in substance, kill the Ambassador.  In response, ZAW agreed, in substance, to pay the additional $1,000 and to try to obtain the additional money.  ZAW is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Halpern on May 10, 2022."

On March 16, 2022, this: "STIPULATION IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR 8TH OR SUBSEQUENT ORDER OF CONTINUANCE AND 8TH ORDER OF CONTINUANCE as to Phyo Hein Htut. Time excluded from 3/16/2022 until 4/13/2022. (Signed by Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy on 3/16/2022)"

Jump cut to March 2023, when Htut is approaching a July 10 trial in SDNY in White Plains. He has asked for US public money to put on a witness from Myanmar, who would say Htut was a pro democracy activist. The US said if the unnamed witness is deposed, it should be in White Plains. Then, two sealed documents.

 Burma did not speak at the UNGA High Level Week, from which UNSG Antonio Guterres and PGA Abdulla Shahid banned Inner City Press.

  Burmese sources consulted by Inner City Press wondered aloud if the Thai arms merchant in the Complaint, or allies, might have any role. Inner City Press will keep covering the case, and asking UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who don't answer even a law firm's pro bono letter, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, about it.


UN Moves from Banning Press in NY to Firing Now Bans Anti-CCP Whistleblower in Geneva

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, March 22 – The United Nations, exempting itself from all laws including about press freedom and whistleblower protection, under SG Antonio Guterres not only fires staff who criticize Guterres and ousts journalists which report on him.  

  Now Guterres' misuse of UN Security to physically bar his critics from entry, ostensibly as being threatening, has spread from New York to Geneva.

  In July 2018, Guterres had Inner City Press physically roughed up and ousted as it reported on his deal with the UN Fifth (Budget) Committee then-chair Cameroon to remain silent about Paul Biya's slaughter of Anglophones in exchange for financial favors in the Committee.

Since then, a total ban on re-entry has been in place, despite among other things a pro bono letter from the Quinn Emanuel law firm (here), cc-ed to the so-called UN Correspondents Association and the US State Department. 

 Now from Geneva Inner City Press learns that UN whistleblower Emma Reilly, who expose the UN giving the names of Chinese dissidents set to testify there to the Chinese CCP government, had not only been fired by Guterres, but now banned from entry to give a speech, by Guterres' hand-picked "Human Rights" Commissioner Volker Turk. 

 Turk did nothing while in New York drawing a big UN (public) salary, when Big Boss Tony Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up and banned from the UN; appeal unacted on. Now he flexes his own totalitarian "muscle" in UNOG. To this has the UN descended. Watch this site.
March 20, 2023

Corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres Gives Top Job at UNDP to Member of Syria Assad Regime

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 14 – How corrupt is today's UN?

Well, on March 14 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave a top UN job to a longtime member and supporter of Syria's Assad government, Abdallah Al Dardari. 

  UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who refuses to answer even the written questions of Inner City Press he and Guterres had banned from the UN, announced " the appointment of Abdallah Al Dardari of Syria as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He was Chairman of the State Planning Commission in Syria, until he became Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs."  

 This is today's UN...

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March 23, 2023

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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March 6, 2023

Mozambique as UNSC President Leaves Press Questions Unanswered As Mulls DRC Junket

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

UN GATE, March 1 – With Mozambique taking over presidency of the UN Security Council on March 1, 2023, on February 28 Inner City Press wrote to the Mozambique Mission to the UN to request in advance access to its March 1 press conference by Ambassador  Pedro Comissário Afonso.

 To submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to the Mozambique Mission at its UN Blue Book address and at the UN email addresses listed by its purported partner - that is, mozambique at un dot int and mozambique dote unmission at gmail dot com

From the Mozambique Mission, nothing at all. The Mission is not on Twitter or other social media. The Ambassador dodges a question about a trip or junket to DRC, and said the UNSC's failure does not impact its credibility. Because it's already shot? Video here.

  Inner City Press asked the Mozambique Mission, and the UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here. Also: "On December 2, 2022 I was told to file an appeal with DSS and I did on December 5 - you should ensure response (there has been none) and granting. See here."

 This while Inner City Press is banned from entry, which it had for years until it exposed UN corruption. No response to this July 2021 appeal. Impunity.

 Inner City Press will be covering the Mozambique presidency, quite actively, this month.

 Our requests and questions remain; we will publish any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch this site.

February 27, 2023

Year of Ukraine Failure By UN and Guterres Covered Up Now Refugees UNserved

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Eastern Front

UN GATE, Feb 21 – There is much to say about the now-full year of war in Ukraine. But the focus here is on the total failure of the United Nations, and even more of its Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

  Guterres, who has a pattern of being obsequious to strongmen like China's Xi, with whom he glad-handed at the Beijing Olympics without saying a world about the genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, initially told his staff not to call what happened in Ukraine an invasion. 

 Once he was outed, he pushed forward to try to help sell Russian ammonia, through a Houston-based commodities firm, no less. Thus to keep the UN Security Council's Permanent Five members content. The war continues.  

 When questioned about his actions - Inner City Press asked about Guterres' cover up of his links to convicted UN briber China Energy Fund Committee, and how he chose the Houston-based firm - his response, through "Department of Global Communications" chief Melissa Fleming, as been to keep Inner City Press banned from entry. His spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refuses all of Inner City Press' written questions.

   Now UN General Assembly president Csaba Korosi, who followed suit and blocked Inner City Press from his "Civil Society Town Hall," will hold an entirely symbolic UNGA meeting Feb 22 and 23, and perhaps 24. His spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told Inner City Press it could appeal the ban - but UN DSS chief Gilles Michaud has entirely ignored the December 5, 2022 appeal.  

   How long will those with unrealistic and/or self-serving dreams about the UN allow Guterres to continue this?  

   On February 20, Presidents' Day in the US, Joe Biden showed up in Kyev. On November 21, NRC said One year on from the start of the Ukraine war, NRC has found that seven out of ten refugees who fled to Poland, Moldova and Romania said they are struggling to make ends meet.  As President Biden prepares to speak in Warsaw later today [Feb 21] NRC is calling on host countries and international donors to not forget about the plight of refugees.. [But Tony's UN has moved on, while still conniving to help sell Russian ammonia through Trammo or otherwise]. More respondents in Poland and Moldova report having moved to substandard housing to reduce their costs compared to those in Romania, and relatively more people in Moldova – particularly the Roma community – have resorted to borrowing money since they fled Ukraine. Usurious nations.. More responses follow. Watch this site.

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February 20, 2023

In Corrupt UN of Guterres UNEP Scams Detailed by Whistleblowers to Inner City Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE, Feb 18 – How corrupt is today's United Nations under Antonio Guterres? The head man files incomplete financial disclosure, then throws out the Press that asks about it. PGA Csaba Korosi follows suit and bans Inner City Press from his "Civil Society Town Hall," which UN DSS Head Gilles Michaud ignores the appeal the PGA's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak said to file. No answers, so more stories. Here's today's, from whistleblower:

"Hi Matt,  We know you'll get this out there for us. The drama in the UN never ends, just changes positions like the game of musical chairs . . .  It's pointless reporting through the internal channels since Justice is rarely served especially when it's seniors being exposed. What the so called investigating entity (OIOS) does is, they delegate the Case to the accused persons organization, so a team of Legal officers who have no idea what investigation is all about, are the ones who determine the Case!

  There's a previous incident where a hiring manager in UNEP got a crooked colleague to change assessment results of her preferred candidate, one Ms. Atifa Kassam, (who had otherwise failed the assessment) so that she made it to the interview and subsequently got the job, a P3 post. . . fair and transparent recruitment indeed?  Similar story for a GS-4 position (still in UNEP) where all candidates failed the technical assessment, but the crooked lead panelist opted to cook the test results and proceed to the oral interviews with a bunch of his preferred candidates. Correct procedure should have been to cancel the process and start over but . . . so someone somewhere in the UN system is earning a salary in a position they did not rightfully get? That's the United Nations Matt. 

  UN talks of mandatory GGST certification for General Service posts right? The list of staff who've skewed their way through into the system without GGST certification is endless.  Perhaps you could get us answers from USG-DMSPC Catherine Pollard, or ASG-OHRM Martha Lopez and tell us why? (Casing example is one HRO, Feezah Kyambadde, who is well known for bypassing candidates without GGST certification into the system).  And guess what, in UNEP again, one Annette Waweru, facilitated a junior staff getting "exceptional approval" to take the GGST a 6th time . . . and "miraculously" got the post of Finance and Budget Assistant!

Well, "Policy" says only 5 attempts for the GGST is allowed, but how come this staffer got an extra chance? Could others also be given 'that extra chance' to try?. This is what free and fair recruitment is all about? Please get us answers from USG-DOS Atul Khare.  And just so that the world knows, you can be interviewed as early as 3 or 4am for a job in the UN, and still not be selected for it, despite being the best candidate!

 Matt, if you could get your hands on the raw audio recording [Ed.'s note: please send it to us, it will go straight unto Soundcloud after another non-response from corupt UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming) for the interview of this position you'll notice something with the 2 candidate being interviewed. Clearly, she was reading from a pre-written script and in passing, even mentions having had a meeting with the panel chair the previous night! What does that tell you about her selection to the post? Try getting answers from the UNEP Chief of Staff - Rafael Peralta or Chief of HR - Carlos Serrano (good luck if either assents to releasing the truth . . .). The post JO:140108 was for a Director. 

And still on the UNEP Director position just mentioned, using your network, if you could discreetly get in touch with the Japanese Ambassador to the UN in New York, and let him know that their national (Yoko Watanabe, UNDP) with over 20 years experience in the UN, was short changed! She was the best candidate and the panel had agreed on her selection, but her name was changed by the chief panelist at the last minute, and an American with just 2 years in the UN from USAID was selected instead. The raw recordings can prove it and those present during her interview, if brave enough, can attest to what transpired behind the scenes. It'd be a waste of precious time reporting this to the OIOS, nothing will happen. Maybe the Ambassador could take SG Guterres head-on for answers and for Justice to be served for their national.  Shift focus to New York Headquarters where bending rules rather than enforcing them is the norm . . .

Policy, Rules, Regulations are compromised by the very persons in senior positions to enforce them. Example, staff members share their login credentials with Interns and make these poor, overworked, unpaid colleagues do their donkey work for them - including recruitment of staff! Yes Matt, it's happening right in the UN Headquarters. Never mind that the "Policy" says non-staff (interns, UNVs, Contractors and Consultants) should not be involved in recruitment! Casing example is a section called Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Unit headed by one Tomas Kontogeorgos. Could you please check if UN IT boss, ASG Bernard Mariano, is aware what his 'senior colleagues' are up to, sharing their login credentials with interns who are never paid despite their credible output?  Oh boy Matt, there's stench and rot behind the glamour of the UN logo.

  Keep it coming. And watch this site.

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February 13, 2023

On UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asks UN and Lazzarini With Photo of Car No Answer

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

UN GATE EXCLUSIVE, Feb 7 – How corrupt is today's United Nations, under Antonio Guterres?

Well, consider UNRWA, under Philippe Lazzarini. Inner City Press for two days has asked Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming -- the second day cc-ing Lazzarini himself - about complaints and evidence that whistleblowers have provided to Inner City Press about what is formally knowns as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

  No response at all, while Dujarric laughs and services state media and his partners in censorship, with whom he worked to target and now ban Inner City Press.

So here's some of the story, with more to come:

Dear Matthew Russell Lee / Inner City Press: We are a group of UNRWA staff who are witnessing daily violations and abuses and are unable to do anything about it due to bullying and fear of retaliation by the senior management.   We have several documented cases of abuse and fraud by senior directors who are protected by the commissioner general.    We saw your reporting and we are asking if you are interested to write about such cases in order for us to disseminate wider once these issues are reported.  

Examples:    1- A Senior Director was recruited at D1 level when he failed the P5 interview 10 months earlier.  This was a direct intervention of Christian Saunders when he was acting USG of the Agency.  

 2- That same Senior Director who is a former colleague and a friend of the director of HR bullies staff.  When staff report those actions to the ethics office and to the internal audit department, the complaints are ignored.  

3- That same Director announces a vacancy in his department and interviews candidates.  He selects his preferred candidate and makes her an offer.   When she refuses the fees, he decides to cancel the vacancy and lies to the HR department saying, no candidate was found suitable.  

 45 days later, he announces the same vacancy at 300% increase of the initial salary.  When HR asks him to interview candidates, he says, no because he had selected a candidate from previous interviews.   Head of HR because of his close friendship with the director (formerly colleagues at UNICEF), he agrees.  WE have copies of the two contracts with same ToRs but different amounts of fees.

  4- Tribunal judgment calls for accountability with two persons (Director of HR and deputy director of Syria field office) because they knowingly offered a contract to an unqualified candidate who is proven to have false information on her PhP/CV.   Nothing happens. 

 5- A staff member seeks protection against retaliation from the ethics office.  That request is ignored for months.  When the staff members provide additional concrete solid evidence of harassment, he is granted protection.   The evidence is very strong and qualifies for a dismissal.  The case is forwarded for investigation without putting the staff on any preventive action.  Harassment and bullying continues knowing that the investigation will lead to nothing. 

  6- Report of two independent consultants show how senior management is bullying staff with a strong report.  The report is hidden and nothing happens.   

 On the morning of February 6, Inner City Press sent the above for comment to dozens of UN officials, and Malta's Mission to the UN under Vanessa Frazier, as UNSC president for February. No answer at all. Now this was sent, nothing, so publishing:  

   UNRWA Snr. Management ignores accountability.  Staff complaints to ethics and DIOS are ignored selectively.  

  UNRWA management under Phillipe Lazzarrini and his team promised donors to work with transparency and accountability.  In reality, what is happening is the exact opposite.  Management assessment report prepared by two individual independent consultants showed several serious violations and mismanagement.  The report was requested and paid by the German government via GIZ.

 After several attempts by Lazzarini to intervene with the findings, the report was hidden.  Instead of handling the serious issues, he decided to call for a team building exercise which included cooking class for his Snr Directors.  Directors who do not agree with him and his deputy are marginalized and eventually pushed out.  Those who maintain bad relations with the communities and staff are promoted.  An example of this promotion is the most recent appointment of Dorothe Kalaus (Germany) to the director of Lebanon field. 

  Briefly before the arrival of Lazzarini, Christian Saunders was appointed by his friend the Secretary General as acting Commissioner-General for UNRWA.  During his acting period, he added more than $100 million annually as unjustified additional costs.  This is all in the middle of a serious funding crisis which was threatening the existence of the Agency.   In addition, Saunders intervened in appointments of several of his friends.

  Brian Baker, a national of the UK and a former UNICEF staff member, was moved out of Gaza a few years back for his problems with the community.  He was interviewed in Jan 2019 for a P5 position of chief security.  The Panel found him unsuitable and opted for another candidate of an Egyptian nationality. 

Less than a year later, Brian was appointed as a Director of Security and Risk management with a fraud process orchestrated by the Director of Human Resources Antonino Brusa who is a friend and a former colleague of Brian Baker.    The process was a fraud.  The head of the Panel was a UNICEF staff and the then direct supervisor of Brian Baker.  He was invited  by Brusa to chair a panel.   There was never in the history of the Agency such an action.  Panel members disagreed with the chair (Brian's supervisor at UNICEF) and did not select Brian.  Antonino Brusa informed the panel members that lets send the case to the acting commissioner-general for his decision.  Saunders overruled the panel members' views and approved the appointment of Brian Baker at D1 level.

  That same person did not qualify for a P5 with the same agency a few months earlier.    Baker within months of his appointment, fired the Egyptian P5 person who competed against him.  With fabricated accusations and in close coordination with friend Antonino Brusa, the investigation took a couple of weeks for a final decision to be approved with dismissal. 

This way, Baker got rid of his first target.  A few months later, Brian Baker seeks a recruitment of a local consultant and he publishes an announcement for that position.  He selected his preferred candidate and offered her a contract valued at approximately usd 1300 monthly.  She turned down the contract.  Brian writes to HR and informs them that he intends to cancel the vacancy instead of proceeding with the second selected candidate.  A couple of weeks later, he replaced the vacancy with an international consultancy with a monthly fee of USD 5000.  After he announces the vacancy, HR asks him to shortlist candidates.

 Brian strongly refuses to do so and gets the approval of the Director of HR to proceed with the recruitment of the same selected candidate of the local consultant.  Two contracts are attached.  Same candidate, same ToRs, different value with more than 300% increase.    The Director of HR intentionally ignores those violations and approves whatever his friend wants.    Baker continues with his actions without any questioning by any of the Snr. Management people.  He then brings another friend from UNICEF Yara Dababneh on another consultancy contract.

 Less than a year later Yara receives a P4 contract with external relations with the help of Brian.   The Director of HR brings in another UNICEF former colleague in a fabricated pre-planned process.  Julliette Touma who holds a fake Palestinian nationality ( in reality she holds an Israeli citizenship but she was able to receive a Palestinian travel document and not a nationality).  She records her nationality with UNRWA as Palestinian and she was appointed at D1 level. 

Ms.Touma was originally assisted by her friend from OCHA ( David Shearer who was DSRSG for UNAMI Iraq) to become an international staff of the UN at P2 level in yet another fake process. He wanted her to move from GS6 position directly to P4 but then agreed to a P2 due to her lack of experience.   After serving UNICEF regional office in Jordan, she was asked to seek another opportunity outside of UNICEF.  Her friend Brusa immediately picked her up to become the spokesperson and the director of communications for UNRWA.    In Syria field office, UNRWA tribunal issued a judgment related to violation and abuse of power.

 A Selection of a senior staff was found incorrect by the Advisory Committee of HR.  While digging into the qualifications, they discovered that the selected staff provided false information on her CV.  The director of HR, Brusa lets the case rest for a couple of months and then agreed with the deputy director of Syria office to offer that same candidate a contract.  One of the non selected staff appealed the decision to the tribunal and won her case.  The judgment calls for accountability for those who violated the process.

  Lazzarini does nothing to this date and the selected staff remains at her new job in Syria.   Back to Baker. A couple of months ago following one of his staff providing a witness statement to the Tribunal, he started bullying and harassing him.

 Brian also informed the witness staff thast his position was abolished.  When the staff reported his case to the ethics office, the case was delayed and ignored.  The staff provided additional very serious and concrete evidence to the ethics office.  The case was immediately forwarded to the investigation after the ethics office concluded a prima facie case of retaliation.  The decision of abolishing the post was put on hold.

  Brian and because of his untouched protection by the Director of HR and by the Commissioner-General, remains working at his position.  Other less serious cases are immediately put on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigation.  The evidence provided to the ethics office included proof of bullying, retaliation and harassment,  It also included Brian's comments about the uselessness of ethics and DIOS in his opinion. 

  Lazzarini, upon his arrival, assigned an official UNRWA vehicle for more than a year to be used by his wife.  The car gets hit by his wife and repaired at the expense of the Agency when the accident was reported as official.

That is today's UN, with Inner City Press still banned from entering to ask these questions in person, and its December 5, 2022 appeal not even responded to. Totally corrupt.

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February 6, 2023

UN Budget Expert Hyassat Loses NY Rape Case By Default As He and UN and USUN No Show

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

SDNY COURT Exclusive, Feb 1 – A United Nations budget expert in New York drugged and raped a woman; a default judgment was awarded against him on February 1, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  Inner City Press, which has been banned from the UN for asking about its sexual abuses, was there in court.

 But the defendant, Mutaz Hyassat, was not. Nor was anyone from the United Nations, on whose Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions Hyassat served at the time of the rape, nor from the UN missions of Jordan nor of the United States. 

  The victim worked for the US Treasury Department at the time of the rape.

 Hyassat lured her to El Rio Grande restaurant at 160 E. 38th Street where he plied her with a pink drink with GHB in it.

 Hyassat raped her overnight. He continues to work for the Jordanian foreign ministry, as chief of legal administration, it was said on February 1.  Doe was present in the courtroom.

Hyassat refused to ever answer the rape charges against him. But on February 1 Judge Paul G. Gardephe found that Hyassat's immunity as an ACABQ member was only functional, in connection with this work. Despite the pervasive corruption of the UN under SG Antonio Guterres, rape is still not part of ACABQ's work. 

  Judge Gardephe granted and entered a default judgment and referred it for a Magistrates' inquest on damages.

 Plaintiff Jane Doe is seeking $1.25 million. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, and USG Melissa Fleming whose department keeps Inner City Press banned from entering the UN to ask, refuse to answer written questions.  The case is Doe v. Hyassat, 18-cv-6110 (Gardephe)

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January 30, 2023

In UN Money Murk DSG Lies on Taliban  After SG Guterres Rebuffed Qatar Murder Q at UNCA

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE, Jan 25 – The UN community in New York, clad in tuxedos and expensive gowns and cloaked in impunity and anonymity, converged on December 9, 2022 for a glitzy event in Cipriani at 25 Broadway in lower Manhattan.  

Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres, was outside, asking questions. It asked Guterres, as he entered, why he had said nothing about the 7000 migrant worker Qatar killed when he visited the World Cup there.  Video here.

  But where was the Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed, who watched and benefited while Inner City Press was caged with a mind on the UN's second floor - and did nothing - and now on its ban since - where was and is she? She was misspeaking in Geneva: she said, "just last week, the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee agreed to establish and fully fund a dedicated UN Youth Office."

But apparently that wasn't true, or jumped the gun. Now a sanitized version: "at the end of the 76th session, the General Assembly agreed to establish a dedicated UN Youth Office."

 So the Fifth Committee has NOT agreed? Note that it was while covering the Fifth Committee that Inner City Press was roughed up and banned since. Amina J. Mohammed. We said, more on her role and actions to come.

ANd now there is more, a bogus January 25, 2023 "press" conference with Inner City Press banned, softball questions from retirees and state media, full of lies - video here.

 Inner City Press also asked UN President of the General Assembly why it had been banned from his December 2, 2022 "Civil Society Town Hall Meeting," and then lied to be his spokesperson Paulina Kubiak, that there is an appeals process. Video here.

UN DSS Gilles Michaud hasn't even confirmed receipt, much less deliberated on the appeal Inner City Press filed on December 5, here.

It asked a UN Correspondent who did a fundraiser with global pedophile Ghisline Maxwell about it.

 And, in defense to the working paparazzi present, it filmed but did not question Kate Hudson, who it seems know nothing about the UN Correspondent Association whose prize she took.  Video here.

 On Twitter video live it asked Kubiak about the lie, and EU Ambassador Olof B. Skoog about being banned (he seemed to indicate he would do something, which would be easy for him - we'll see).  Twitter video 5 at 3:16, here

Event stakeout video 2 (Egypt), 3, 5, 6

This is the corruption of the UN. Inner City Press' appeal to re-enter and ask these questions as is its right remains pending. Watch this site.

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January 23, 2023

In Corrupt UN of Guterres Libya Post Up for Sale Between UK Adamson and Gluck, Michaud

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive, video

UN GATE, Jan 20 -- The United Nations under Antonio Guterres is so corrupt that its head of UN Security in Jordan has been a man who conducted assassinations, perhaps even of Rafic Hariri, for Michel Aoun of Lebanon.

  The UN Security official's name is Antoine Abi Samra; he was a military officer under Aoun. He has been promoted and protected by one Igor Mitrokhin in the UN Department of Safety and Security, ostensibly run by Gilles Michaud. It is an outrage.    see below "Cc: Najat Rochdi, Kenneth Gluck"

Michaud, after Inner City Press on December 2, 2022 was told by PGA Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak it could appeal to him, did - and so response, six weeks later. Totally corrupt.

And now as to Gluck, he's being considered by corrupt UNSG Guterres, with US support, for UN deputy special representative for the UN mission in Libya, versus Joanne Adamson of equally corrupt UK Mission. Watch this site.

   Inner City Press first asked Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric about Mitrokhin in connection with South Sudan, based on complaints it received from whistleblowers in the UN mission there, UNMISS.

  With Dujarric and Guterres and his head of communications Melissa Fleming refusing to answer banned Inner City Press' written question, it nevertheless asked then reported why "Igor Mitrokhin of UNDSS from Russia is pushing David Shearer, SRSG of UNMISS and Principal Security Advisor, Graeme to take Nikolay Kovalev of Russia at all cost disregarding all rules."  See below.

Now on September 29 we have more about Nikolay Kovalev in Gilles Michaud's corrupt UN Security, which does everything possible to dismiss and bury complaints:

From: Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
Subject: RE: Complaints against KOVAKEV NIKOLAY
Cc: Najat Rochdi, Kenneth Gluck

January 16, 2023

UNSG Guterres Covers Up UN Child Rape in CAR As Fleming Bans Press & Japan Is Told

By Matthew Russell Lee, Video here, Vine here

UN GATE, Jan 14-- Stephane Dujarric, the lead spokesman of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, his deputy Farhan Haq and now Guterres' Global Communicator Melissa Fleming have joined their boss in personally covering up child rapes and sexual abuse by UN personnel, including recently a child rape by a UN "peacekeeper" from Paul Biya's Cameroon in DR Congo.

  Even while they and OIOS Ben Swanson purport to care - and even answer questions - on the UN's cover up for Burundian and Gabon rapes in CAR in 2017, they have adopted corrupt Guterres' solution going forward: cover up the cases in advance. Rough up and ban the Press which asks, leave inside only insiders who ask why they can't use the UN escalator instead of walking one or two flights of stairs, and refuse to answer written questions. Their UN is dying - and taking young victims with it. See Tel Aviv UNTSO video first published by Inner City Press on June 23, here, and Swanson here.

On January 10, 2023, the UN data dumped more cases of its sexual abuse, including a child rape in Central African Republic. Photo from UN Conduct and Discipline website here. Inner City Press that day asked, in writing, UN Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Farhan Haq, Melissa Fleming - and the Japanese Mission to the UN, as UNSC president - what had been done for the victims. No answer at all, and no one they let in asked. The UN has devolved into a child sex trafficking and abuse conspiracy.

January 9, 2023

Japan as UNSC President Bans Press Questions But Lets In Ghislaine Maxwell Fundraiser

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial Book - NY Mag

UN GATE, Jan 3 – With Japan taking over presidency of the UN Security Council on January 1, 2023, on December 30 Inner City Press wrote to the Japanese Mission to the UN to request in advance access to its January 3 press conference by Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro.

 To submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to the Japanese Mission at its Blue Book address and at the UN email addresses listed by its purported partner, one Shinobu YAMAGUCHI - who doled out questions on January 3.

Four full days later from the Japanese Mission, nothing at all, even after the request was resent on the morning of January 3.

   When Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro came out, directly in front of him in the front row was a UN Correspondent who did a fundraiser with convicted global pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell. Softball questions were asked and dodged, but not response to Inner City Press' written questions.

We will cover the month: Colombia on Jan 11, Yemen on the 16th, "Middle East" on the 18th, Haiti (where the UN brought cholera) on 24th, and luncheon with Guterres January 30.

They were bragging about their still-then unapproved Jan 12 "signature event" about, what else, the rule of law, in mounting hypocrisy: "open debate on “The promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security: the rule of law among nations”. Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa is expected to chair the meeting. UN Secretary-General António Guterres."

Nothing says rule of law more than Guterres, who has the Press thrown out without due process, then lies about their being an appeals process. And Japan, which claims its focus on the UNSC is methods of work, leaks its program of work before the other 14 members have considered and voted on it. Some method of work.

  Inner City Press asked the Japanese Mission, and the UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here. Also: "Japan's position on Western Sahara, Myanmar, North Korea On December 2, 2022 I was told to file an appeal with DSS and I did on December 5 - you should ensure response (there has been none) and granting. See here."

 This while Inner City Press is banned from entry, which it had for years until it exposed UN corruption. No response to this July 2021 appeal. Impunity.

 Inner City Press will be covering the Japan presidency, quite actively, this month.

 Our requests and questions remain; we will publish any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch this site.

January 2, 2023

UN Rubber Stamps Corrupt Budget Stealing US Funds as Guterres and Korosi Ban Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UNGATE, Dec 30 – How useless is today's United Nations? They couldn't even vote on December 23 on taking (largely stealing) the billions of dollars from US taxpayers and others.  But on December 30, they did.

It was chaired by UN PGA Csaba Korosi, who banned Inner City Press from his Civil Society Town Hall, after his spokesperson told Inner City Press it could appeal to USG Gilles Michaud, who has yet to respond.

On the afternoon of December 30 in the UN basement where Inner City Press reported on these deals until it was ousted and banned, dysfunctional objections were made about funding for mandates in Syria, Ethiopia and Palestine - Israel said it wouldn't speak and US would vote no; it spoke, and US abstained and praised the UN.

  More US gushing: Ambassador Chris Lu at AmbUNReform tweeted, "And just like that: UN budget has been adopted by Fifth Committee and will go to General Assembly One key reform adopted is moving to an annual budget on a permanent basis. It’s a critical reform that furthers transparency and accountability."

But today's UN displays neither, and the US Mission of Lu and Linda Thomas-Greenfield has done nothing about US-based investigative media Inner City Press being banned by Antonio Guterres.

In the GA, there was Portugal, bloviating (video here)

There was Japen, representive advertising the New York Giants of football, but Japan Mission not responded to Inner City Press' request for access to its Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro's January 3 press conference as president of the Security Council.

None of the documents were available to the public, as billions of dollars were being taken. It was to resume at 6 pm.

These are the budget meetings Inner City Press used to cover and expose, in person, until corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres had it roughed up and thrown out while it covered the budget negotiations in 2018. 

 Now no one covers it, which is how the UN likes it. But they still can't agree how to steal. UNPGA Csaba Korosi, who banned Inner City Press from his December 2 "Civil Society Town Hall," issued a lame speech, cravenly promoted by colonial Belgium's mission to the UN.

  Inner City Press' December 5 appeal of being banned, sent just as Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told it to, has not even been acknowledge.

Today's UN is totally corrupt. And Inner City Press will stay on it, insisting its appeal be granted, and either way reporting on the UN's corruption. Watch this site.  

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December 26, 2022

UN Says Burkina Faso Has No Right to Oust Guterres Rep Manzi But Guterres Can Ban Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UNGATE, Dec 24 – Today's United Nations asserts it is above any country's law or decisions.

 How else to interpret reclusive UN Secretary General Antonio's canned statement, after Burkina Faso ordered his representative to leave the country, that only he can do that?

  It is more than a little ironic, since Guterres also claims for himself the right to physically oust and ban anyone from the being or reporting from inside the United Nations, with no explanation or appeal. 

  He did that to Inner City Press on July 3, 2018, and has maintained the ban since, refusing through his USG Melissa Fleming to answer a polite letter from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel, and more recently Inner City Press' appeal directed, as UNPGA Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed, to USG Gilles Michaud of UN Security.  

  Guterres' own spokesman Stephane Dujarric has refused all written questions about it. But Dujarric issued this:

"The Secretary-General has learned with regret that, on 23 December, the transitional government of Burkina Faso declared the Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations and Designated Security Official in the country, Ms. Barbara Manzi, as persona non grata.     The doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to United Nations officials. Under Article 100 and 101 of the United Nations Charter, United Nations staff members are appointed by the Secretary-General, responsible only to the Organization... Only the Secretary-General, as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Organization, has the authority to decide, after careful investigation, with respect to the withdrawal of any United Nations official."  

  What arrogance. From an organization that for example killed 10,000 in Haiti by bringing cholera, and whose SG Guterres defend and covers up for UN rapists from peacekeepers to UN "aid(s)" worker Karim Elkorany.

  Inner City Press' December 5 appeal of being banned, sent just as Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told it to, has not even been acknowledged.

Today's UN is totally corrupt. And Inner City Press will stay on it, insisting its appeal be granted, and either way reporting on the UN's corruption. Watch this site.  



December 17, 2022

At UN Only 50 Voters & No Competition Now 2 China State Media In UN Correspondents Assoc Board

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 17 –  How corrupt and bought by China is today's UN?

Well, amid escalating protests and repression of anti-Xi protests of COVID-lockdowns, from Xinjiang to Shanghai and Beijing, the UN of SG Antonio Guterres and his weak human rights commissioner Volker Turk have said nothing. 

Amid canned statements about other topics, including claims of UN concern at rapes while Guterres covered up for UN rapist Karim Elkorany and unindicted rapist UN Peacekeepers, nothing on the protests in China, the dead in Urumqi, journalists including from BCC beaten up.  

This after Guterres was sold on December 9 by the UN Correspondents Association, which has among its membership Iran state media which broadcasts forced confessions.  Guterres refused a Press question about his silence in Qatar here.

On December 6, UNCA released its clean slate of "leaders" for 2023 - with no competition for any post.

  It turns out there were only 50 voters - lowest turnout ever, for a groups that claims the right to block media globally from entering the UN -- and now China has two state media seats - Xinhua and CCTV, replacing AFP - Russia, Turkey, and the top award to a crony. Some got as few of 26 of the 50 votes, even with no competition. Photo here. No response to Quinn Emanuel's letter - nor this appeal of ban. It's the UN Censorship Alliance.

 

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December 12, 2022

UN Guterres Rebuffs Qatar Migrant Workers Q and PGA Korosi Lies On Way Into UNCA Ball

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

UN GATE, Dec 9 –   The UN community in New York, clad in tuxedos and expensive gowns and cloaked in impunity and anonymity, converged on December 9 for a glitzy event in Cipriani at 25 Broadway in lower Manhattan.  

Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres, was outside, asking questions. It asked Guterres, as he entered, why he had said nothing about the 7000 migrant worker Qatar killed when he visited the World Cup there.  Video here.

 It asked UN President of the General Assembly why it had been banned from his December 2, 2022 "Civil Society Town Hall Meeting," and then lied to be his spokesperson Paulina Kubiak, that there is an appeals process. Video here.

UN DSS Gilles Michaud hasn't even confirmed receipt, much less deliberated on the appeal Inner City Press filed on December 5, here.

It asked a UN Correspondent who did a fundraiser with global pedophile Ghisline Maxwell about it.

 And, in defense to the working paparazzi present, it filmed but did not question Kate Hudson, who it seems know nothing about the UN Correspondent Association whose prize she took.  Video here.

 On Twitter video live it asked Kubiak about the lie, and EU Ambassador Olof B. Skoog about being banned (he seemed to indicate he would do something, which would be easy for him - we'll see).  Twitter video 5 at 3:16, here

Event stakeout video 2 (Egypt), 3, 5, 6

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December 5, 2022

UN Tells Inner City Press You're Banned Then PGA Spox Says There's An Appeals Process But

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

UN GATE, Dec 2 – For a United Nations "Civil Society Town Hall" meeting on December 2, Inner City Press was invited and had its RSVP confirmed - but on First Avenue, was told it is "banned from the UN." Tweeted audio here.

When it asked the basis of the ban, since none had ever been expressed, it was told by a UN Security officer at the door of 801 First Avenue that a supervisor would come and explain. None came, for 40 minutes and counting.

  Inner City Press e-mailed the spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly Csaba Korosi, whose event it was, and Melissa Fleming of the Department of Global Communications, who sat on stage and heads UN Media Accreditation. Fleming did not answer, as she has not answered a July 2021 letter about Press access from the pro bono law firm of Quinn Emanuel, here.

 But Paulina Kubiak came onto First Avenue, to her credit, and went into to speak with the UN Security officer. She emerged to say, You are banned but they tell me there is an appeals process, you are to write to the Investigations Unit and the Police Chief.  

Inner City Press expressed skepticism, including in light of Fleming's non-answer, but asked the PGA's office to follow through. Kubiak said she would go into UNHQ, to UN Security / DSS in the basement, and get Inner City Press the addresses to appeal to. 

 But she later wrote to Inner City Press, "Hi Matthew,     I’ve spoken with a number of people on the issue of your access to UNHQ, but unfortunately, was unable to get any useful information.     Best,  Paulina."

 Inner City Press wrote back, " Paulina -    You told me there is an appeals process, and that you were doing inside to DSS in the basement to get me the address that I, or the Quinn Emanuel law firm, should write it with the appeal. So what is the address?  Thanks."  

   But there has been no answer, even as Kubiak held a questionless session in the UN Press Briefing Room.

  Prior to that, Inner City Press asked UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Farhan Haq, and the Indian Mission to the UN as UNSC President, "Immediately explain both the basis for UN Security at 801 1st Ave on the morning of Dec 2 tell me I am "banned" from entering the UN despite confirmed invitation to UN PGA Town Hall, and (2) the "appeals" process that DSS told PGA Spokesperson about to, conveyed to me. What is the "Inspections Unit" and "Police Chief" email address an appellee is to write to? Why did USG Fleming not respond to the July 2021 Quinn Emanuel letter with information about this appeals process, if it exists? How many people are on the UN's "banned" list? On what bases? On deadline." No answer -

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November 28, 2022

UN Rot Typified by Silence on Qatar by Volker Turk Tapped by Tony Genocide Games Guterres

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras -