South Korean Prez Yoon charged with insurrection after martial law
Seoul, Jan. 27 -- South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection after he attempted to declare martial law in December, media reports said.
His ill-fated attempt to impose military rule plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis and he becomes the first sitting president in South Korean history to be charged with a crime.
The indictment comes after a court in Seoul rejected a request to extend Yoon's detention on Saturday, which meant prosecutors had to make a decision on whether to charge or release him before Monday, the BBC reported.
"The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally," Han Min-soo, a spokesman from the main opposition Democratic Party told a press conf...
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