Yoon Suk Yeol attends a proceeding for his impeachment proceedings astatine the Constitutional Court successful Seoul, South Korea, connected Jan. 23, 2025.
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South Korea's jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted connected further charges connected Saturday arsenic a peculiar authoritative continues investigating him for his short-lived declaration of martial instrumentality successful December.
The caller charges see obstruction of the workout of others' rights by maltreatment of authority, ordering the deletion of records and blocking the execution of apprehension warrants, the prosecutor's bureau said successful a briefing.
Yoon has been connected proceedings connected charges of insurrection, which is punishable by decease oregon beingness imprisonment, facing further charges since the peculiar authoritative was appointed successful June to instrumentality implicit the cases against him.
Yoon has denied each wrongdoing. His lawyers did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the caller charges.
The impeached and deposed erstwhile person has been jailed astatine Seoul Detention Center since earlier this month, and a tribunal earlier this week rejected his petition to beryllium freed from detention.
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