The top U.N. human rights official urged Japan on Dec. 2 to heed public concerns raised at home and abroad over a bill to toughen penalties for leakers of state secrets.
Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in Geneva the law was vague about what a secret is.
She added that the law "allows the government to designate any inconvenient information as secret." (Kyodo)
国連のピレイ人権高等弁務官は12月2日、日本の特定秘密保護法案への懸念を示した。
The Japan Times ST: December 13, 2013