Seoul, South Korea – The South Korean Court on Friday was ordered by an Impeded President Yoon Suk Yeol released from prison, more than a month after being arrested and charged through his short -term imposition of a martial arts law.
The decision of the Central District Court in Seoul would allow Yoon to stand the trial, not physically detained. Hearing in his separate trial at the Constitutional Court concluded at the end of February, and it is expected that the court will soon judge whether he will officially remove him from his duties or return him.
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Seul district court said he accepted Yoon’s request to be released from prison, because the legal period of formal arrest had expired before being charged in late January. The court said that the investigating agency that detained Yoon before his formal arrest did not have legal rights to investigate charges of criminal rebellion.
Yoon’s defensive team welcomed the court’s decision and invited the plaintiff to release him immediately. The presidential office also welcomed the court’s decision, saying that he hoped Yoon would quickly return to work.
However, the law of South Korea allows the plaintiffs to temporarily hold the suspect while they are appealing.
Yoon’s lawyer, Seok Dong-Hyeon, said France-Press Yoon, “will only be released if the prosecutor renounces his appeal rights or failing to appeal in the prescribed period.”
The prosecutors did not immediately respond when AFP asked for a comment.
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Investigators claimed that the Decree of Martialial Law made a rebellion. If he was convicted of this work, he would face a death penalty or life in prison.
Yoon’s decree on a martial arts law, which included the shipping of trunk and police forces in the national assembly, evoked traumatic memories of past military rules among many South Koreans. The regulation lasted only six hours because enough lawsuit managed to get into a prefabricated hall to enable voting, and then he voted unanimously to cancel it.
Yon later claimed that his decree was merely intended to inform the people of the danger of the main liberal opposition democratic party, which undermined his agenda and interfered with the best officials, and said he sent the troops to the assembly just to keep the order. But some top military and police officers sent to the Assembly said hearing or the Constitutional Court investigators that Yoon had ordered them to draw legislators to interfere with his decree or detained politicians.
If the Constitutional Court supports Yoon’s imperative, he would officially be thrown out of office and would hold a national election to choose his successor within two months.
The massive sets of opponents and supporters of Yoon filled the streets of Seoul and other large South Korean cities. Whatever the Constitutional Court decides, experts say that they will probably further polarize the land and enhance their conservative-liberal division.
Yoon is the first South Korean president to be arrested while he was in office. The South Korean law gives the president’s immunity from most criminal prosecution, but not for serious charges such as rebellion or betrayal.
According to the law, the president in South Korea has the power to put a land under war and similar emergencies, but many experts say that South Korea was not in such conditions when Yoon declared a martial art.
