China News Service, April 28th. On the afternoon of April 28th, the Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference. Deputy Director of the Ministry of Defense Information Bureau and Ministry of Defense spokesperson Tan Kefei said that in recent years, military procuratorial organs have focused on resolutely safeguarding national defense and military affairs. In order to protect the interests of the people, the pilot program of public interest litigation has been carried out, and obvious results have been achieved, achieving good political, legal, social and military effects.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: According to reports, the Political and Legal Committee of the Central Military Commission recently issued the "Notice on Public Interest Litigation Work by Military Procuratorial Organs", which clearly stipulates the general requirements, content and procedures for military procuratorial organs to carry out public interest litigation work.
Please give the speaker a further introduction to the main considerations and relevant situations of our army in carrying out procuratorial public interest litigation.
Tan Kefei responded that procuratorial public interest litigation refers to the activities of procuratorial organs to carry out legal supervision through consultation, procuratorial suggestions, and filing lawsuits against acts that infringe on national interests and social public interests, and to protect public interests.
Exploring the establishment of a public interest litigation system by procuratorial organs is a major reform plan made by the Party Central Committee.
In 2018, the Central Military Commission listed "exploring the establishment of a military procuratorial public interest litigation system" as an important task for the reform of the military policy system.
Military procuratorial organs carry out public interest litigation work, which is an inevitable requirement for implementing the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and Chairman Xi, and an important measure for implementing the strategy of governing the military according to law and safeguarding national defense and military interests.
Tan Kefei pointed out that in recent years, the military procuratorial organs have focused on resolutely safeguarding national defense and military interests, and carried out pilot projects for public interest litigation, which have achieved remarkable results and achieved good political, legal, social and military effects.
It is mainly reflected in three aspects:
First, always focus on serving and preparing for war.
In response to the actual needs of the troops to prepare for war, actively and prudently explore and carry out public interest litigation in the fields of military operation security, military facility protection, military real estate protection, national defense mobilization, and military service.
For example, in 2021, the military and local procuratorial organs jointly launched a special public interest litigation campaign for air clearance protection at the Air Force Airport, which promoted the demolition and rectification of more than 170 super-high buildings around the military airport, effectively maintaining the safety of military flight training.
The second is to promote the resolution of key and difficult problems.
Since 2018, it has worked with relevant military and local units to handle more than 500 public interest litigation cases, promoted the rectification of more than 600 issues such as the protection of military facilities and the confirmation of military land rights, supervised and rectified more than 800 issues related to the protection of martyrs' memorial facilities, and effectively resolved a number of issues. The "big problem" that has plagued the troops and officers and soldiers for a long time.
The third is to safeguard the status and rights and interests of military personnel in accordance with the law.
Pay attention to the use of procuratorial public interest litigation methods to promote the resolution of issues such as the protection of heroes and martyrs and the protection of the rights and interests of military members.
For example, military and local procuratorial organs have jointly handled cases of insulting heroes and martyrs on the frontiers and volunteers of the "Ice Sculpture Company", effectively safeguarding the honor of heroes and martyrs, and promoting the core socialist values.
Tan Kefei said that in the next step, the military procuratorial organs will continue to play the role of public interest litigation in accordance with the requirements of the "Notice", and provide a solid and powerful judicial guarantee for the military-strengthening industry in the new era.