List of Information Considered State Secrets to Expand

The newspaper "Hraparak" reports that the government has developed a legislative package aimed at tightening the punishment for the disclosure of state and service secrets. It plans to expand the list of information classified as "state secret" to include all documents classified as "service secret" and marked as "confidential."

For example, information related to possible connections with terrorism involving individuals and organizations, financial monitoring, security of state-protected structures, border security, and measures aimed at ensuring national security, which contain data that constitutes state secrets, products, or materials but do not independently reveal state secrets, will be included.

For disclosure of secrets, the existing criminal code prescribes a punishment of 1-4 years, but it is proposed to raise this to 3-5 years, and up to 8 years if the act has caused particularly large property damage or severe consequences.

It should be noted that this is a revised version of the restrictions applied during the 44-day war, which aims to perpetuate the restrictions on freedom of speech that were in place at that time.

Details can be found in today's issue of the newspaper.