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Chinese procuratorates to be monitored

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China's Supreme People's Procuratorate has initiated a pilot mechanism which allows inviting common people as supervisors to oversee occupational offense cases that are directly accepted and handled by procuratorial organs.

The cases include corruption, bribery, breaches of citizen's democratic rights and misconduct in office, Friday's China Daily reported.

These supervisors will have a voice in decisions on whether to place cases on file for investigation and whether or not to initiate prosecution, said Zhang Zhongfang, spokesman of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, quoted by the newspaper.

They can express their views on what they see as improper or illegal action of procuratorial staff and can participate in the investigation of cases, he added.

So far, ten provinces around China have set up pilot people's supervisor mechanisms, the process starting in September this year,and around 3,000 common people have been recommended for the firstgroup of supervisors.

The initiation of the supervisory mechanism was a major reform measure taken by the highest procuratorial organ in response to the dissatisfaction of many people with the settlement of several occupational offense cases because of the lack of outside supervision, according to the spokesman.

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