Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's president, arrives for a proceeding astatine the Constitutional Court of Korea successful Seoul, South Korea, connected Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
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South Korean peculiar prosecutors connected Sunday filed a petition to detain erstwhile President Yoon Suk Yeol connected charges related to insurrection from erstwhile helium declared martial instrumentality past year, the prosecutor's bureau said successful a statement.
"Detention petition is related to allegations of maltreatment of powerfulness and obstruction of justice," the connection from the peculiar counsel of prosecutors investigating the December 3 incidental said.
Yoon's martial instrumentality decree was lifted astir six hours aft it was announced erstwhile lawmakers, who had been forced to standard the walls of the assembly gathering to marque it done a ringing of information forces, voted the decree down.
Yoon was summoned connected Saturday for hours of questioning by the peculiar counsel arsenic portion of the probe implicit the insurrection charges, according to the counsel officials.
The peculiar prosecutors person not provided credible grounds for the charges it is seeking against Yoon, and his ineligible squad has plans to "explain successful tribunal that the petition for an apprehension warrant is unreasonable," Yoon's lawyers said successful a statement.
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