After UN DPI Ousts ICP, GAP Asks US Mission To Get Pass and Desk Back
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, February 26 -- After Inner City Press was summarily ejected from the UN, which it has covered for 10 years, on February 19, the ostensibly deciding official Cristina Gallach told no less than Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta that Inner City Press would still be able to cover the UN.
What she didn't say was that Inner City Press' ability to cover the unfolding UN corruption scandal in which she has played a role would be curtailed under the proposed arrangement - by design.
Now the Government Accountability Project, which defends whistleblowers, has written to the US Mission to the UN, Ambassador of Management and Reform Isobel Coleman, to ask the US to ensure Inner City Press gets back its office and Resident Correspondent's pass.
GAP's Beatrice Edwards cites the UN's lack of due process and of rules, and that seeming retaliation against Inner City Press for its reporting. Other mission have openly taken action: what will the US Mission do?
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US Mission to UN Is Asked to Ensure ICP Gets Its Office & UN Pass, by GAP
After UN DPI Ousts ICP, GAP Asks US Mission To Get Pass and Desk Back
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, February 26 -- After Inner City Press was summarily ejected from the UN, which it has covered for 10 years, on February 19, the ostensibly deciding official Cristina Gallach told no less than Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta that Inner City Press would still be able to cover the UN.
What she didn't say was that Inner City Press' ability to cover the unfolding UN corruption scandal in which she has played a role would be curtailed under the proposed arrangement - by design.
Now the Government Accountability Project, which defends whistleblowers, has written to the US Mission to the UN, Ambassador of Management and Reform Isobel Coleman, to ask the US to ensure Inner City Press gets back its office and Resident Correspondent's pass.
GAP's Beatrice Edwards cites the UN's lack of due process and of rules, and that seeming retaliation against Inner City Press for its reporting. Other mission have openly taken action: what will the US Mission do?
After UN DPI Ousts ICP, GAP Asks US Mission To Get Pass and Desk Back
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, February 26 -- After Inner City Press was summarily ejected from the UN, which it has covered for 10 years, on February 19, the ostensibly deciding official Cristina Gallach told no less than Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta that Inner City Press would still be able to cover the UN.
What she didn't say was that Inner City Press' ability to cover the unfolding UN corruption scandal in which she has played a role would be curtailed under the proposed arrangement - by design.
Now the Government Accountability Project, which defends whistleblowers, has written to the US Mission to the UN, Ambassador of Management and Reform Isobel Coleman, to ask the US to ensure Inner City Press gets back its office and Resident Correspondent's pass.
GAP's Beatrice Edwards cites the UN's lack of due process and of rules, and that seeming retaliation against Inner City Press for its reporting. Other mission have openly taken action: what will the US Mission do?