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    UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 20 – The UN delivered a threat to Inner City Press to “review” it accreditation on Friday afternoon at 5 pm. The UN official who signed the letter, when Inner City Press went to ask about the undefined violation of live-streaming Periscope video at a photo op by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, had already left, minutes after sending the threat. This comes two days after Inner City Press asking Guterres about the UN inaction on threatened genocide in Cameroon, and the UN claimed Guterres hadn't heard the 10-second long question. It also comes after Alison Smale the head of the Department of Public Information which would “review” Inner City Press' accreditation has ignored three separate petitions from Inner City Press in the six weeks she has been in the job, urging her to remove restrictions on Inner City Press' reporting which hinder its coverage of the UN's performance in such crises as Yemen, Myanmar, and the Central African Republic where Guterres travels next week, with Smale's DPI saying its coverage of the trip will be a test of its public relations ability. But the UN official who triggered the complaint is Maher Nasser, who filled in for Smale before she arrived. His complaint is that audio of what he said to Inner City Press as it staked out the elevators in the UN lobby openly recording, as it has for example with Cameroon's Ambassador Tommo Monthe, was similarly published. A UN “Public Information” official is complaining about an article, and abusing his position to threaten to review Inner City Press' accreditation. This from an official who told Inner City Press on Twitter to be less "negative" about the UN - amid inaction on the mass killing in Cameroon - and who allowed pro-UN hecking of Inner City Press' questions about the cholera the UN brought to Haiti and the Ng Lap Seng /John Ashe UN bribery scandal which resulted in six guilty verdicts. We'll have more on this.

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    UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 20 – The UN delivered a threat to Inner City Press to “review” it accreditation on Friday afternoon at 5 pm. The UN official who signed the letter, when Inner City Press went to ask about the undefined violation of live-streaming Periscope video at a photo op by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, had already left, minutes after sending the threat. This comes two days after Inner City Press asking Guterres about the UN inaction on threatened genocide in Cameroon, and the UN claimed Guterres hadn't heard the 10-second long question. It also comes after Alison Smale the head of the Department of Public Information which would “review” Inner City Press' accreditation has ignored three separate petitions from Inner City Press in the six weeks she has been in the job, urging her to remove restrictions on Inner City Press' reporting which hinder its coverage of the UN's performance in such crises as Yemen, Myanmar, and the Central African Republic where Guterres travels next week, with Smale's DPI saying its coverage of the trip will be a test of its public relations ability. But the UN official who triggered the complaint is Maher Nasser, who filled in for Smale before she arrived. His complaint is that audio of what he said to Inner City Press as it staked out the elevators in the UN lobby openly recording, as it has for example with Cameroon's Ambassador Tommo Monthe, was similarly published. A UN “Public Information” official is complaining about an article, and abusing his position to threaten to review Inner City Press' accreditation. This from an official who told Inner City Press on Twitter to be less "negative" about the UN - amid inaction on the mass killing in Cameroon - and who allowed pro-UN hecking of Inner City Press' questions about the cholera the UN brought to Haiti and the Ng Lap Seng /John Ashe UN bribery scandal which resulted in six guilty verdicts. We'll have more on this.

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    UN's Letter Threatening To Review Inner City Press' Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out On Cameroon

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    UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 20 – The UN delivered a threat to Inner City Press to “review” it accreditation on Friday afternoon at 5 pm. The UN official who signed the letter, when Inner City Press went to ask about the undefined violation of live-streaming Periscope video at a photo op by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, had already left, minutes after sending the threat. This comes two days after Inner City Press asking Guterres about the UN inaction on threatened genocide in Cameroon, and the UN claimed Guterres hadn't heard the 10-second long question. It also comes after Alison Smale the head of the Department of Public Information which would “review” Inner City Press' accreditation has ignored three separate petitions from Inner City Press in the six weeks she has been in the job, urging her to remove restrictions on Inner City Press' reporting which hinder its coverage of the UN's performance in such crises as Yemen, Myanmar, and the Central African Republic where Guterres travels next week, with Smale's DPI saying its coverage of the trip will be a test of its public relations ability. But the UN official who triggered the complaint is Maher Nasser, who filled in for Smale before she arrived. His complaint is that audio of what he said to Inner City Press as it staked out the elevators in the UN lobby openly recording, as it has for example with Cameroon's Ambassador Tommo Monthe, was similarly published. A UN “Public Information” official is complaining about an article, and abusing his position to threaten to review Inner City Press' accreditation. This from an official who told Inner City Press on Twitter to be less "negative" about the UN - amid inaction on the mass killing in Cameroon - and who allowed pro-UN hecking of Inner City Press' questions about the cholera the UN brought to Haiti and the Ng Lap Seng /John Ashe UN bribery scandal which resulted in six guilty verdicts. We'll have more on this.

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    United Nations @ Nations Unies READQUARTERS + SIEGE NEW YORK. NY 10017 20 October 2017 Dear Mr. Lee, am writing in reference to a story you published today on Inner City Press, which included audio of a conversation recorded without the knowledge or consent of the other party (http://www. innercitypress.com/uninformedSsmalemailnasser]01917.html), Please note, this act is in violation of the UNHQ media guidelines, to which all press card holders must abide. Specifically, I would like to draw your attention to the following rule: “In areas of general access, Correspondents are permitted to record interviews and conversations with diplomats, staff, officials and journalists, subject to their prior consent. Photographing and filming, including smart phone video recording or live broadcasting, requires MALU approval. Hiding recording or filming equipment is strictly forbidden” (hup://www.un.orgen/media/accreditation/guidelines.shtml), Similarly, we would like to remind you that filming and recording on the 38th floor are limited to official photo opportunities, and recording conversations of others in the room is not permitted. It has been brought to our attention that you breached that rule recently. Please kindly take note that any further violation of the guidelines and established journalism standards could lead to review of your accreditation status Sincerely yours, Toh habe Tal Mekel, Chief Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit Department of Public Information ‘Mr. Matthew Lee Inner City Press

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