M.A. Thesis:

Examining the legal gaps in the criminal immunity of whistleblowers

Abstract (include summary ,goal,exective ways and results ): Corruption is one of the national and international challenges that the political and legal systems in the world have taken many measures to deal with it. In most cases, it is difficult to identify corruption and except for certain people who have information in this field. Judicial and legal systems will not be familiar with it. It is possible that government officials are also influential in the occurrence of corruption, in which case it can never be hoped to eradicate it. The right of the people to monitor the functioning of the government, freedom of expression, free access to information and the right to greater prosperity are all important issues that make corruption disclosure even more important, but whistleblowers are always under threat. Harassment, criminal prosecution, and the like are factors perpetrated by individuals with corrupt stakeholders. Report the arrest of corruption cases in this descriptive and analytical study using library resources It is written to seek to achieve the gaps in criminal immunity of whistleblowers in the Iranian legal system, and its findings indicate that the Iranian legal system does not have independent legislation in this area and should refer to the general rules. This also leads to a kind of delay in the proceedings and the impossibility of judicial protection of the criminal immunity of the whistleblowers. In fact, legal actions are so time-consuming and challenging that, before any policy protection action, Punishment leads to the awareness of the perpetrators of corruption. Keywords: Criminal immunity; Corruption whistleblowers; Transparency, legal gaps;

Keywords: Criminal immunity; Corruption whistleblowers; Transparency, legal gaps;