Seoul, South Korea – Seoul, South Korea (AP) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol He appeared in court on Thursday for hearings where his lawyers challenged his arrest due to criminal applications that stated that he orchestrated the rebellion when he briefly listed the martial law in December.
Security has been reinforced while the motorcycle transport Yoon arrived at the Central Court in Seoul and dozens of his supporters nearby.
Preliminary hearing will include discussions on witnesses and other preparations for his criminal trial, and the court should also review the request from the Yonova lawyer to cancel the arrest and release him from custody. Such challenges are rarely successful.
Yoon was charged on January 26. on the indictment for the rebellion carried by the potential penalty of death or life in prison. In South Korea, the presidents have immunity from most criminal prosecutor’s offices, but not charges for rebellion or betrayal.
The indictment cites his sub-martiality laws was an illegal attempt to prison the National Assembly and the arrest of politicians and the election authorities. Conservative Yoon said that the Declaration of his martial law was conceived as a temporary warning to the liberal opposition and that he always planned to respect the will for legislators if they voted for raising the measure.
Yoon’s presidential forces suspended when it was designed on 14. December, and South Korea Constitutional court It is closer to the decision on whether it formally remove it from the function or reject the empowerment of the Assembly and return it.
The martial law was built about six hours after Yoon declared, but caused political oversettings, disrupted high-level diplomacy and tested the driver of democracy of the country. Yoon’s conservative supporters rebelled in the Seoul Western District Court After approving his arrest last month, while his lawyers and the ruling party openly question the credibility of the courts and institutions for the implementation of the law dealing.
Yoon continued to express contempt for his liberal rivals for interfering his agenda and approved Conspiracy theories on deceit elections to justify their abused authoritarian push.
Yoon’s defense minister, the head of the police and several military commanders were also arrested for the rebellion, abuse of the Circulation Regulation, which included hundreds of very armed hulls arranged in the National Assembly and the National Office for Election and National Election Office.
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2025-02-20 02:43:00
