President of South Korea Yoon in the Court for Preliminary Hearing of the ‘Rebel’ | News about politics
Lawyers who defend Yoon, who was charged with attempting to rebel the rebellion, called for release from custody.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-Veol appeared in a court at a preliminary hearing on charges that he was trying to orchestrate a rebellion when he briefly imposed a martial art in December.
Hearing – held at the Seoul District Court on Thursday, where security was reinforced while dozens of his supporters gathered nearby – the discussions of witnesses and other preparations before his criminal trial were involved.
The court will also review the request of Yoon’s lawyers to cancel his arrest and let him out of custody.
Police Arrested Yoon 15 January after a weekly extract in its housing connection, in the first such action taken against the sitting president in South Korea.
Attendance declared a martial arts law At the television address on December 3, claiming that the shock move was to “protect the liberal South Korea from threats that represented the communist forces of North Korea and removed anti -ist elements”.
Yoon’s Regulation brought thousands Angry protesters Concerning the move to the streets, before the lawmakers at the National Assembly voted him and raised the war law within about six hours of proclamation.
On January 26, the authorities accused Yoon on charges of setting up a rebellion, claiming that his decree was an illegal attempt to close the national assembly and arrest politicians and election authorities.
While the presidents in South Korea enjoy immunity from most criminal persecution, the exception is made of insulting charges or betrayal. If convicted, Yoon faces a potential punishment of death or life in prison.
Yoon’s Defense Minister, Kim Yong-Hyun, as well as the head of the national police Cho Ji-ho and several military commanders, were also arrested and accused of rebellion, abuse of government and other accusations related to the Regulation.
Although short-lived, Yoon’s Declaration on Martialial Laws has drawn the country into political turmoil.
On December 14, the National Assembly voted to suspend Yoon’s presidential powers and insert it.
In a parallel trial for the criminal case of Yoon, the Constitutional Court of South Korea is now approaching the decision of whether it will officially remove it from duty or reject the proposal and return it.
Al Jazeera correspondent in Seoul, Rob McBride, said the court would if the court supported the Yoon imperative, South Korea would hold elections within 60 days.
“This drama continues, and of course, the country remains in a kind of diplomatic recess,” McBride said outside the Seoul Court, where Yon’s trial takes place.
“The actor of the country’s president, Choi Sang-Mok, did not even talk to the phone [United States President] Donald Trump, the leader of the most important ally of South Korea, “he added.
Yoon’s vocal supporters, hundreds of which revolted In the Western Court in Seoul after it approved his arrest last month, they protested against the legal proceedings against him.
Yoon also retained a defiant stop, continuing to express contempt for its liberal rivals and supporting unfounded conspiracy theories about electoral fraud.
