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In a statement, prosecutors said they had “accused Yoon Suk Yeol with detention today for charges of being the leader of an insurrection”
South Korea accused President Yoon Suk Yeol (Photo: Archive AP)
The prosecutors of South Korea accused President Yoon Suk Yeol for rebellion on Sunday in relation to their imposition of abbreviation of martial law, according to news reports, a criminal charges that could kill him or jail for life if he is convicted.
This is the last blow to Yoon, who was accused and arrested during his martial law decree of December 3 that immersed the country in great political agitation. Separated from criminal judicial procedures, the Constitutional Court is now deliberating whether to formally dismiss Yoon as president or restore him.
The media of South Korea, including the Yonhap news agency, reported that the office of the Central District of Seoul accused Yoon for rebellion. The calls to the prosecutor and Yoon’s lawyers were unanswered.
Yoon, a conservative, has firmly denied any irregularity, qualifying to its martial law a legitimate act of government aimed at creating public awareness about the danger of the National Liberal Controlled Assembly that obstructed its agenda and accused the senior officials. During his announcement of the martial law, Yoon called the Assembly “a den of criminals” and promised to eliminate the “shameless followers of North Korea and antistatal forces.”
After declaring the martial law on December 3, Yoon sent troops and police to the Assembly, but enough legislators still managed to enter a chamber of the Assembly to vote for Yoon’s decree unanimously, forcing his cabinet to lift him.
The imposition of the martial law, the first of its kind in South Korea in more than 40 years, lasted only six hours. However, he evoked painful memories of dictatorial rules passed in the 1960s to 80 when the rulers backed by military used martial laws and emergency decrees to suppress opponents.
The Constitution of South Korea gives the President the power to declare martial law to maintain order in times of war and other comparable emergency states, but many experts say that the country was not under such conditions when Yoon declared the martial law .
Yoon insists that he had no intention of interrupting the work of the Assembly, including his floor vote on his decree and that the office of troops and police forces was destined to maintain order. But the commanders of military units sent to the Assembly have told the hearings of the Assembly or the investigators that Yoon ordered them to drag the legislators.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED -Associated Press Union News Agency)
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Seoul, South Korea
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