South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country’s first criminal prosecution of an incumbent leader. Last month prosecutors indicted Yoon after accusing him of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.
A justice ministry motorcade took Yoon from the Seoul Detention Center, where he is being held, to the court, outside which were parked lines of police buses to ensure security. Prosecutors called for swift proceedings considering the gravity of the case, but Yoon’s lawyers said they needed more time to review records. Yoon had “no intention to paralyse the country,” one of his lawyers told the court, adding that his martial law declaration aimed to tell the public of the “legislative dictatorship of the huge opposition party.”
lørdag 22. februar 2025
South Korea’s Yoon attends first trial hearing for insurrection
