Caijing Online, 2009-05-05
The Supreme People's Procuratorate issued revised provisions regarding “whistleblower work” that include additional measures to protect “reporting persons” from reprisal. Among the new measures are enhanced secrecy procedures at procuracy and investigation offices to protect whistleblowers' anonymity and increased prosecution of revenge attacks, which, according to Procuratorate statistics, leave approximately 1,200 whistleblowers and witnesses dead or permanently disabled every year. The new provisions are also meant to bring China into compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption and its protection of reporting persons requirement. Caijing journalist Qin Xudong notes, however, that despite the new protections, China's current governmental structure and its overcentralization of powers, in addition to the various provisions' lack of authority, mean a reliable system for protecting whistleblowers is still far away.
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Can I ask the new provision's title?
What's the name of the provision?
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