Things have gotten even more Orwellian under the UN's February 19 letter cutting Inner City Press' accreditation. After Inner City Press was Banned from even staking out a March 21 meeting, https://youtu.be/xeaynbeiVlU, on March 24 Inner City Press was told it could only speak to Security Council diplomats with a UN minder present, minutes after the Council's Western Sahara meeting ended. At that same stakeout, the head of the UN Correspondents Association came up to Inner City Press and said, loudly and repeatedly and without response yet from the UN, "You are an assh*le." https://soundcloud.com/innercitypress/uncas-pioli-calls-inner-city-press-an-asshle-at-unsc-after-icp-reports-on-unca-corruption The UN has come to this. It has now become even more clear that there was no basis for the penalty in USG Gallach's February 19 letter ousting Inner City Press from the UN on two hours notice. The Jan 29 meeting ICP tried to cover was nowhere listed as closed; ICP filmed it openly, live-streaming on Periscope. USG Gallach tells interlocutors, including in from out of town on just this matter, that ICP's violation was being in the interpreters booth. She has refused to produce any rule in that regard, and this past week on March 23 Inner City Press witnessed and filmed two non-interpreters in the “Other” interpretation booth of the UN Press Briefing Room as the noon briefing took place. Video here: https://youtu.be/Zl_45ZvzYh8 UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq did nothing about these non-interpreters in the interpretation booth, quite different from ICP's treatment on Jan 29 and since. On March 24 ICP asked Haq about it and he admitted he had not known who the individuals in the interpretation booth were the previous day. Video here: https://youtu.be/TcUHXnSoMvY So there is no rule, or no rule that is even arguably evenly enforced, in the regard. USG Gallach's order must be reverse: it is not only unjust and untenable: it is resulting in UN censorship. On March 25 USG Gallach replied to a Western Sahara advocacy group in New Zealand which asked “why did you remove the accreditation of Inner City Press?” Gallach replied, photo here: https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/713609692983984128, that “I did not! ICP is fully accredited! Can report from UN.?His privilege to use office was taken out, due to misbehavior.” It is false that ICP is “fully accredited” - I have had a reduction in accreditation and access and have been banned from the Security Council stakeout on March 21 and required to have a Secretariat “minder” on March 24 - On March 24 as ICP worked on Western Sahara, UNCA President Giampaolo Pioli approached and said, “You are an assh*le,” loudly. He repeated this several more times, even as ICP advocated with UN Security not to lock the glass door to the Security Council until the Western Sahara meeting was over. Audio here: https://soundcloud.com/innercitypress/uncas-pioli-calls-inner-city-press-an-asshle-at-unsc-after-icp-reports-on-unca-corruption If ICP has had its accreditation cut and access to its long time shared office denied for five week for trying to cover a meeting it believed and believes related to the John Ashe / Ng Lap Seng / Frank Lorenzo / South South News / Vivian Wang case, or for being uncivil, how can UNCA's president be allowed to repeatedly call ICP an assh*le as ICP work at the Security Council stakeout? USG Gallach has done nothing. At this point, USG Gallach has turned over the powers of her office to a witch hunt, which began in 2011 with an attempt to censor ICP's coverage of Sri Lanka http://srilankacampaign.org/the-long-arm-of-the-sri-lankan-government Notably while the response to Sri Lanka's Northern Provincial Council's March 1 letter to the 38 floor was signed by UNICEF's Una McCauley, when asked about its inaccuracy UNICEF has said, "Ask DPI." USG Gallach's February 19 order must be reversed and this witchhunt and censorship must end. Inner City Press must be restored to its long time shared office space and Resident Correspondent accreditation status immediately, to allow it to report without intimidation or censorship. That is the purpose of this petition and campaign; thanks for all your help.