Lawmakers emphasises need for measures to protect denunciators
Lawmakers stressed the need to protect denunciators and their kin on the sidelines of the 14th National Assembly’s fifth session which discussed several contentious points of the draft Law on Denunciation (revised) on May 24.
Deputies join discussions at the 14th National Assembly’s fifth session on May 24 (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Lawmakers stressed the need to protect denunciators andtheir kin on the sidelines of the 14th National Assembly’s fifthsession which discussed several contentious points of the draft Law onDenunciation (revised) on May 24.
Many deputies noted an outstanding feature of the reviseddraft law is to contain more specific regulations on the protection ofaccusers. It has three groups of protection measures: personal information;life, health, assets, honour, dignity, prestige and other personal rights; andworking positions and jobs of accusers.
Deputy Luu Binh Nhuong from the Mekong Delta province of BenTre suggested that the legislature should collect recommendations of people,especially those involved in denunciations, in order to propose forms andscales of protection. The concept of kin subject to protection should be basedon the definition as regulated in the Civil Code.
According to Nhuong, denunciation cases must be classified,so that specific protection measures are carried out for serious cases withpossible threats to the denunciators.
Sharing the same view, deputy Nguyen Thanh Hai from northernHoa Binh province said that the draft law has extended the subject toprotection to include people with certain relationship with the denunciator. .
According to him, the subject of protection should beproposed by the denunciator and be limited to a certain scale as the issue isrelated to financial and human resources to carry out the work.
In terms of denunciation forms, there remain different ideason the expansion of denunciation forms.
Deputy Bui Van Xuyen from northern Thai Binh provinceemphasised the need to regulate only two forms of denunciation, through writtenpetitions or face-to-face forms in the current stage. He noted that at present,only 15-20 percent of denunciations are accurate, while 60 percent ofdenunciations are wrong, and the remaining contain both right and wronginformation.
If denunciation forms are expanded, the agencies handling denunciationswill have to deal with too many issues and face a lot of difficulties, whichcan affect the law’s feasibility, he added.
Meanwhile, several said that the recognition of only thecurrent two forms of denunciation is out-of-date, in the context of the fourthindustrial revolution. The use of SMSs, fax or email will create favourableconditions for citizens to exercise their right to denunciation.-VNA
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Deputies join discussions at the 14th National Assembly’s fifth session on May 24 (Source: VNA) 
