Chinese officials said on Tuesday that whistleblowers exposing corruption would receive legal protection, the latest move in the government’s crackdown on corruption, reported Reuters.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate, the country’s top prosecuting body, said in a statement that new regulations would clarify the rights of whistleblowers.
"The 'regulations governing the work of whistleblowers' require that when the prosecutor's office receives a whistleblowing report from someone giving their real name, it has to assess the risks from the whistleblowing and develop whistleblower protection plans when necessary to prevent and end acts of retaliation against the whistleblowers," the statement said.
"After receiving a report from someone who provides his real name, the procuratorate should do a risk assessment and must, in a timely manner, implement a protection plan and prevent reprisals on the whistle-blower,
"Whistle-blowers should file their reports in a lawful manner, and cannot deliberately twist the truth, falsify evidence and cause people harm," it said.
President Xi Jinping has made fighting corruption in the Communist Party one of his priorities since taking power in 2012.