South Korea’s prosecution representatives accused on Sunday President Yoon Sok Yol is isolated News reports said that he rebelled with regard to imposing martial law for a short period, a criminal charge that could lead to his execution or life imprisonment if he is convicted.
This is the last blow that Yun receives, which was wasolated and arrested on December 3 Customary rulings decree Which drowned the country in huge political turmoil, shaking politics and financial markets in South Korea, as well as the international image of the country. Away from the criminal judicial procedures, the Constitutional Court is now circulating whether Yoon will officially dismiss his position as a president or return him to his position.
The South Korean media, including Yonhap News Agency, reported that the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Central region of Seoul was accusing Yun of the rebellion. The calls were not answered to the Prosecutor’s Office and Yun’s lawyer.
Yoon, a governor, denied committing any violations, describing the martial law that he imposed as a legitimate act aimed at raising public awareness of the danger of the liberal national assembly and which obstructed his agenda and isolated senior officials. During the declaration of martial law, Yoon described the assembly as a “den of criminals” and pledged to eliminate “the unpopular North Korea followers and anti -state powers.”
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After announcing the martial law on December 3, Yoon sent forces and police officers to the council, but a sufficient number of legislators are still able to enter the association’s room to vote on the rejection of the Yun decree unanimously, forcing his government to raise it.
The martial law, the first of its kind in South Korea, continued for more than 40 years, only six hours. However, painful memories of the previous dictatorial bases in the 1960s and eighties of the last century sparked the army -backed rulers and emergency decrees to suppress the opponents.
The South Korean constitution gives the president the authority to declare martial law to preserve regime in wartime and other similar emergencies, but many experts say that the country was not in such circumstances when Yun declared martial law.
Yun insists that he had no intention to disrupt the association’s work, including voting on his decree, and that sending forces and police forces was aimed at maintaining the regime. But the leaders of the military units who were sent to the council informed the council listening sessions or investigators that Yoon ordered them to withdraw the legislators.
Yun’s investigations have already aggravated the dangerous internal division in the country, as competing demonstrators organize regular marches in the center of Seoul.
After a local court approved on January 19 on an official arrest order to extend the detention of Yoon, dozens of his supporters stormed the court building and destroyed windows, doors and other properties. They also attacked police officers with bricks, steel tubes and other things. The violence injured 17 police officers, and the police said they had arrested 46 protesters.
Yun earlier resisted the efforts made by the investigation authorities to interrogate or arrest him. On January 15, he was arrested in a large -scale law enforcement in his presidential complex.
Yoon’s investigation was led by the corruption investigations office for senior officials, but since his arrest, Yoon refused to attend the head of the information department, saying that he had no legal authority to investigate the insurgency. The director of information technology said he can investigate Yun’s allegations of rebellion because it is related to the abuse of power and other allegations.
Yun has a presidential immunity from most of the criminal prosecutions, but the privilege does not extend to the allegations of rebellion or betrayal.
The Director of the Central Intelligence handed over the Yun case to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul on Friday and asked him to charge him with rebellion, abuse of power and obstructing the National Assembly. Under the law in South Korea, the rebel leader can face life imprisonment or death penalty.
In a statement on Saturday, Yoon’s defense team urged the prosecutor to the release of Yoon immediately and began an investigation with the head of the information department.
Eun Defense Minister, Police Chief and many other military leaders have already been arrested for their roles in the martial law decree.
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