US EditionProsecutors Seek Death Penalty for Ex-President Yoon Over Insurrection
Prosecutors accuse Yoon Suk Yeol of orchestrating martial law to suppress opposition and seek death or life imprisonment; South Korea has observed a moratorium on executions since 1997.
- On Tuesday, independent counsel Cho Eun-suk demanded the death sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges tied to his December 2024 martial law imposition at a Seoul Central District Court hearing.
- Removed from office last April, Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, faces criminal trials over his short-lived martial law episode and other scandals in South Korea.
- Prosecutors say the central allegation is that Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, directed a rebellion, while the December 2024 martial law order provoked dramatic scenes with lawmakers, including members of Yoon's ruling party, voting down his decree in the assembly hall.
- A verdict is scheduled for February at the Seoul Central District Court on Yoon Suk Yeol, former President.
- Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, has defended the decree as a desperate yet peaceful attempt to raise public awareness about the danger posed by the liberal opposition Democratic Party, calling the opposition-controlled parliament `a den of criminals` and `anti-state forces`.
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The indictment alleges that the ex-mandatario used the Armed Forces and the Police to alter the institutional balance, in an unprecedented judicial process in the Asian nation, whose judgement will be known on February 19.
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On Tuesday, the South Korean prosecutor's office demanded the death penalty against former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who had tried to establish martial law. The verdict will be handed down on 19 February.
South Korea's special prosecutor's team has requested the death penalty for former President Jun Suk-jeol. "Jun has shown no remorse for his actions, which resulted in a serious violation of the constitutional order and democracy," the prosecutor said. The former leader is charged with coup d'état, abuse of power, and aiding a hostile state in connection with his brief imposition of martial law in 2024.
The special prosecutor's team requested that the former President of South Korea, Yoon Sok Yeol, be sentenced to death in a state of war case in December 2024, reported to Renhap.
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