Pro-LTTE Reporter Removed from UN Building
An pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists investigative reporter long considered a thorn in the side of the UN, has said he was manhandled by a security guard, escorted from the building and then prevented from reentering – his latest brush with officials from the world body.
Matthew Lee, who runs the Inner City Press blog, said he was grabbed and his shirt torn while waiting outside a late-night, closed session on the UN peacekeeping budget.
Fox News, which first reported on Mr Lee’s expulsion last week. It said Lee’s credentials downgraded from resident correspondent to non-resident correspondent in 2016 after an argument over coverage, and was last month removed from the building after being told he had to leave also for allegedly breaching rules surrounding when non-resident correspondents can be present.
It added that UN guidelines said non-resident correspondents “only have access to UNHQ on weekends or after hours accompanied by a resident correspondent or when a meeting is advised as taking place”.
It added: “He has broken a few stories and irritated more than one senior official. He has printed gossip, rumours and what several officials called lies, and was once called a “jerk” by Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary-general under Kofi Annan.”
Lee has produced one sided pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists report on so called war crimes in Sri Lanka which never occurred in Sri Lanka over the 30 years of war with Tamil terrorists.
An pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists investigative reporter long considered a thorn in the side of the UN, has said he was manhandled by a security guard, escorted from the building and then prevented from reentering – his latest brush with officials from the world body.
Matthew Lee, who runs the Inner City Press blog, said he was grabbed and his shirt torn while waiting outside a late-night, closed session on the UN peacekeeping budget.
Fox News, which first reported on Mr Lee’s expulsion last week. It said Lee’s credentials downgraded from resident correspondent to non-resident correspondent in 2016 after an argument over coverage, and was last month removed from the building after being told he had to leave also for allegedly breaching rules surrounding when non-resident correspondents can be present.
It added that UN guidelines said non-resident correspondents “only have access to UNHQ on weekends or after hours accompanied by a resident correspondent or when a meeting is advised as taking place”.
It added: “He has broken a few stories and irritated more than one senior official. He has printed gossip, rumours and what several officials called lies, and was once called a “jerk” by Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary-general under Kofi Annan.”
Lee has produced one sided pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists report on so called war crimes in Sri Lanka which never occurred in Sri Lanka over the 30 years of war with Tamil terrorists.
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