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Yoon Suk Yeol: How South Korea's Democracy Rallied After Martial Law Order
Yoon Suk Yeol was convicted for declaring martial law and deploying troops to parliament, with multiple military and police leaders also jailed for the insurrection.
- On 2026-02-22, Yoon Suk-yeol was convicted of leading an insurrection and sentenced to life, 14 months after his martial law decree.
- After his party's election defeats and stalled legislation, Yoon said he declared martial law to break a months-long stalemate and accused the Democratic Party of `anti-state` activity.
- On the night of the decree, presiding judge Ji Gwi-yeon found that Yoon's deployment of troops and attempts to arrest opponents, including Lee Jae Myung, were acts of insurrection.
- Alongside the life sentence, Kim Yong-hyun, former defense minister, was sentenced to 30 years and four other military and police leaders received prison terms for aiding the insurrection while supporters protested outside Seoul Central District Court.
- Historic parallels to Chun Doo-hwan's rule frame Yoon's decree as the first martial law imposition in 44 years, marking a mammoth push to hold a head of state accountable for threatening South Korea's democratic institutions.
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It only took 11 days for South Korean legislators to dismiss former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and threatened to dismantle decades of hard-won democracy.
Ex-South Korean president remains defiant following life sentence for rebellion
A TV screen shows an image of former South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. | Ahn Young-joon, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remained defiant in his first reaction to a life sentence for rebellion handed down by a Seoul court. In a statement released by his lawyers Friday, Yoon maintained that his abrupt and sh…
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