The UN's immunity allows it to throw a journalist in the street and strip his or her Resident Correspondent's accreditation with no advance notice, no opportunity to be heard and no chance to appeal. That is the lesson so far of Under Secretary General Christina Gallach's actions. She or her office admitted to Business Insider that they never even tried to hear both sides: “When contacted for comment, the Office of the Undersecretary General for Communications and Public Information did not deny that Lee had never been questioned over the incident before his pass was revoked. 'In conducting its investigation into the incident on 29 January, [Department of Public Information] reviewed several videos of what happened, including footage that was taken by Mr. Lee and posted on his website,' a representative of the office wrote in an email to Business Insider. 'DPI also spoke at length with the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and officers from the UN Department of Safety and Security who were in attendance on 29 January. These steps were sufficient to determine that Mr. Lee's actions clearly infringed the guidelines that apply to all correspondents at the United Nations.'” There is nothing clear about it: the UN Press Briefing Room is presumptively open to all journalists, not just those whom the UN likes. So the Government Accountability Project has written to the US Mission to the UN, its Ambassador for Management and Reform Isobel Coleman, asking the US to ensure Inner City Press' Resident Correspondent's accreditation and office are returned. Consider this: South South News, implicated in the corruption scandal surrounding Ban's UN, still has its office in the UN; Inner City Press which is investigating Ban's links to the scandal, was thrown out. The UN Staff Union, 35th Staff Council, chimed in for Inner City Press, as well, based on their experience with Ban Ki-moon's tenure. But Ban has largely broken the union. It seems that anything or anyone who criticizes or can criticize him, he seeks to remove. And so we still need your help, to turn this around. To let Gallach's “hit job” stand sends a message that independent investigative journalism is not allowed in the UN. Sign the petition, contribute as you see fit and join us, including the Free UN Coalition for Access.