In UN briefing Inner City Press is banned from, by @UN_Spokesperson@StephDujarric (back from Greece) he's gotten its Qs by email, incl if UNGA require vax proof or canceled, Cuomo whistleblowers, Tigray, #Nigeria#Cameroon#Burma#Haiti UN rapes. Thread below
Inner City Press has asked in writing, "Amid reports that NYC will require proof of vax for indoor events, =\with enforcement mid-Sept, & in light of UN saying "honor system" in person #UNGA high level week Sept 21, will that be canceled or proof of vax required?
Banned Inner City Press asked: "What are SG @AntonioGuterres' comments if any on the findings of sexual harassment and retaliation by NYS Government Cuomo? And why has Guterres covered up for Hochschild, and retaliated incl against Press reporting on Hochschild?
Banned Inner City Press asked, "On Sudan and Tigray, what are SG @AntonioGuterres' comments and actions if any on that some of the unidentified bodies found on a Sudanese riverbank are from the neighboring Ethiopian region of Tigray?
Inner City Press asked in writing, again: "On UN retaliating against whistleblowers, what is SG Guterres' response to statements by Emma Reilly on steps taken to fire her, with UN claiming whether names of Uighur dissidents were given to China is irrelevant?
Banned Inner City Press asked, "On Nigeria, what are the comments and actions if any of @AntonioGuterres & @AminaJMohammed on IPOB's legal claim that providing aircraft to the Nigerian government is, legally, assisting genocide?" Still no answer...
Banned Inner City Press asked, again, "On Myanmar, what are @AntonioGuterres' responses and actions if any to the critique and recommendations of, among others, CPJ? See,
Now @UN_Spokesperson@StephDujarric has ended his noon briefing without answering any of Inner City Press' Qs(on #Nigeria#Burma, UN sexual harassment and retaliation and "honor system" UNGA week)- he got each question by Email, as did @MelissaFleming. Story soon.
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OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, charge conference before closings next week. Inner City Press which reported on & from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below
BNP Paribas' lawyer: There must be one main perpetrator. The alleged tortious conduct all occurred in Sudan, outside the--
Judge: The objection is overruled.
BNP's lawyer: We do not think the Sudan government can be held liable for indirect agents
Judge: I'll take out the word "indirectly."
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Then just say, the Government acted
Judge: OK, I'll take "directly" out too.
BNP's lawyer: Gov't of Sudan had to have acted against these very plaintiffs, not others.
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers citing Janjaweed Musa Hilal. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres
incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below
BNP's lawyer: I'm going to read you two sentences, Defense Exhibit S-i.
Judge: A report by the Department of State, human rights.
BNP's lawyer: "Darfur continued to be a scene of humanitarian abuses, the government only disarmed the Fur and non-Arab groups
BNP's lawyer (reading) Bashir suspended the constitution, abrogated free press- power went to Turabi's National Islamic Front." Your Honor, may we offer some statements from Colin Powell?
Judge Hellerstein: Let me see the excerpt... Yes
BNP's lawyer (reads Powell)
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyers now putting on defense case. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG
@AntonioGuterres incl from #UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below
BNP Paribas' first witness is its COO Phlippe Maillard.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP outside the Americas do business with Sudan?
Plaintiffs' lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.
BNP lawyer: Did BNP Suisse in Geneva do business with Sudan?
Maillard: Yes.
BNP's lawyer: What type of commodities were exported from Sudan to Europe?
Judge: Get on with it! I'll see you at sidebar.
OK - now US v Sean Combs sentencing starts. US wants 11 years, he wants time served; today he has a video & at least 4 lawyers to speak. Opposed "Mia," but she will speak. Inner City Press wrote the book and will live tweet, thread belowamazon.com/dp/B0DHP7YF19
As Combs' lawyer mill around, he has still not been brought out. A US Marshal brings out a big sheaf of papers and a red book, picks up the chair to search underneath. All clear.
9:56 am - Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo and Brian Steel are talking low next to the lectern. Alexandra Shapiro stands with Nicole Westmoreland. The prosecutors are seated at the front table, minus one: Maurene Comey
OK - now at sentencing of Michael Anderson in Yoga to the People case. AUSA says he was the "functional CFO" - asking for prison but less than 46 months. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
AUSA: He was the son of a CPA. He fabricated documents, a mortgage application.
Defense: He lives in the Northwest - Canada doesn't allow you in if you have even a drunk driving change. He had planned to travel to Japan. I think some encouragement is appropriate
Anderson: It's been a long road (pause). I'm sorry.
Judge: The guideline starts at 46 months. The defense requests probation. Probation recommends 30 months. The Government recommends below 46 to 57 months. Over 8 years he committed fraud
OK - back in trial v BNP Paribas for role in Sudan genocide, BNP lawyer moving for judgment. Inner City Press which reported on and from UN/AU Mission in Darfur before being banned by SG @AntonioGuterres
incl from UNGA80 will live tweet, thread below
BNP's lawyer Michael Martinez of Gibson Dunn: The Swiss courts say BNP cannot be held liable-
Judge: I have already decided that. Don't waste your client's money. Next argument.
BNP's lawyer: No proximate cause - Sudan was violent regardless, Mr. Hudson said
BNP's lawyer: There is no linkage between the US dollar transactions in which BNP was involved and the harm-
Judge: I have this graph that shows the confluence of military spending and oil sales, while domestic spending was flat and low. The jury can find that