also: ひみつろうせつざい
crime of revealing state secrets; charge of leaking national security information
Legal term for the offense of disclosing classified state or national security information. Used in criminal law contexts.
He was indicted for the crime of revealing state secrets.
The charge of leaking national security information is often applied to national public servants.
Refers to state secrets themselves, while 秘密漏洩罪 is the crime of leaking them.
Means leakage or disclosure; 秘密漏洩罪 specifically criminalizes the leakage of secrets.
Standard legal term; the reading ひみつろうえいざい is the most common pronunciation.
Alternate reading using 漏洩's ろうせつ reading; less common in modern legal contexts.
Compound of 秘密 (secret), 漏洩 (leakage/disclosure), and 罪 (crime). A modern legal term with no obscure historical derivation.