South Korea ex-Minister gets 25 years for role in martial law disaster: Yonhap
The court said Park helped carry out Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law bid and ordered him into custody after rejecting additional graft charges.
- On Monday, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced former Justice Minister Park Sung-jae to 25 years in prison for his role in President Yoon Suk Yeol's 2024 martial law declaration, finding him guilty of insurrection.
- Park facilitated the insurrection by checking prison capacity to hold political figures and instructing officials to cooperate with the martial law command, court records show.
- Special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team sought a 20-year sentence, arguing Park "reduced the law to a tool of insurrection in his abuse of power and posed a challenge to the rule of law."
- Joining other convicted Cabinet members like Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, Park also faced charges regarding Kim Keon Hee, though the court dismissed anti-graft allegations.
- Yoon himself received a 30-year sentence earlier this month, following the brief 2024 martial law bid that plunged South Korea into an unprecedented political crisis.
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Former South Korean Justice Minister Park Sung Jae has been sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison, after being found guilty of having favored the possibility of an insurrection, within the framework of the controversial declaration in December 2024 of martial law that cost the fall of the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol. "The defendant ended up failing his duty to defend the Constitution before the possibility that the insurrection wou…
The background is the role of Park Sung-jae in the temporary proclamation of martial law 2024
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