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South Korean prosecutors indict Yoon over insurrection charge

CGTN

 , Updated 19:30, 26-Jan-2025

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South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol attends the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, January 23, 2025. /CFP
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol attends the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, January 23, 2025. /CFP

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol attends the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, January 23, 2025. /CFP

South Korea's prosecution indicted arrested President Yoon Suk-yeol on an insurrection charge, multiple media outlets reported on Sunday.

Yoon was put on trial in custody as the suspected ringleader of insurrection, becoming the country's first incumbent president to be formally arrested and indicted.

Yoon was accused of conspiring with former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who had already been indicted under detention, to declare unconstitutional, illegal martial law and dispatch armed forces into the National Assembly.

After receiving Yoon's case from the anti-corruption agency, the prosecution requested Yoon's extended arrest twice for supplementary investigation, but the Seoul Central District Court repeatedly rejected it to bring Yoon to trial as early as possible.

A warrant to keep Yoon in custody for up to 20 days, including the arrest period, was issued by another Seoul court on January 19.

Yoon was apprehended in the presidential office on January 15.

The motion to impeach Yoon was passed through the National Assembly on December 14 last year and was delivered to the constitutional court to deliberate it for up to 180 days, during which Yoon's presidential power is suspended.

Yoon declared an emergency martial law on the night of December 3. It was revoked by the National Assembly hours later.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency
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