{"id":170460,"date":"2026-06-12T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=170460"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:53:29","slug":"executive-power-over-security-cases-reasonable-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=170460","title":{"rendered":"Executive power over security cases &#8216;reasonable&#8217;: SJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1858127_1_M_20260611182101.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Secretary for Justice Paul Lam on Thursday said granting the executive branch the power to classify criminal acts as a matter of national security is a rational and widely accepted practice across common law jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after the subsidiary legislation stipulated under the Hong Kong National Security Law and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance was gazetted and came into effect on Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1858127-20260611.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary for Justice Paul Lam on Thursday said grantin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}