Thu, 4 February 2016 ppp
Pech Sotheary
Transperancy International Cambodia yesterday called on the authorities to fulfill their commitment to the introduction of a whistleblower law, saying it would be key in protecting those who otherwise might not call out corruption.
TI released the results of a survey of 1,200 Cambodian youths, aged between 15 and 30, at a seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday. The corruption watchdog found that 33 per cent of youths would definitely not, or would be unlikely, to report corruption.
Roughly 30 per cent said they were afraid of retribution; 25 per cent said it would effect no change; 24 per cent said they were not sure how to report it; 21 per cent said it was not their duty.
“To allow people to report corruption without any fear as in other countries, the law protecting the witness and reporter has to be made separately, and it has to state all the points - from the mechanism, definition and policy of protection,” said TI Cambodia executive director Preap Kol.
Kheang Seng, deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Unit, said yesterday that the draft legislation, first announced in 2014, was close to completion.
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the US has such law but the informant or whistleblower ended up going to jail anyway...one was a military --jailed for life to giving out infos on gov corruption to julien assange who is himself holed up in an ecuador embassy- in england-- wanted for fake charges of rape in sweden ? ; another one is Snowden-- staying safe in russia now for blowing off the cover of DC gov/CIA corruption ... and one of ex-CIA is also in jail for reporting law violation by CIA to the press....[ cannot remember his name ] all these cases just off the top of my head but there are plenty more of informants sitting in jail right now for trying to tell the public the truth about their gov's corruption .
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