South Korean prosecutors on Sunday The president dismissed Yoon Suk Yeol In rebellion in the context of its short -term taxation of martial law, according to reports, a criminal accusation which could put it to death or in prison in the event of a conviction.
It was the last blow to Yoon, who was dismissed and arrested during his December 3 Martial law decree This plunged the country into enormous political disorders, trembling South Korean politics and the financial markets as well as the international image of the country. Sepreciary of the criminal legal proceedings, the Constitutional Court now deliberates to officially reject Yoon as president or to reintegrate it.
The South Korean media, including the Yonhap news agency, reported that the Prosecutors’ Office of the Central District of Seoul had charged Yoon for the rebellion. Calls to the Office of Prosecutors and Yoon lawyers remained unanswered.
Yoon, a curator, constantly denied any reprehensible act, qualifying his martial law a legitimate act of governance intended to raise public awareness of the danger of the National Assembly with liberal order which obstructed his program and dismissed the senior officials. During his announcement of martial law, Yoon described the Assembly as “a lair of criminals” and promised to eliminate “the followers of North Korea and anti-state forces”.
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After declaring martial law on December 3, Yoon sent troops and police to the Assembly, but enough legislators still managed to enter an assembly chamber to vote unanimously in Yoon, forcing his cabinet to lift it.
The imposition of martial law, the first of its kind in South Korea in more than 40 years, lasted only six hours. However, he aroused painful memories of the dictatorial rules spent in the 1960s and 80s when the leaders supported by the 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 wartime and other comparable emergency states, but many experts say that the country was not in such conditions when Yoon declared martial law.
Yoon insists that he had no intention of disrupting assembly work, including his ground vote on his decree and that the sending of troops and police forces was supposed to maintain order. But commanders of the military units sent to the Assembly told the hearings of the Assembly or to the investigators that Yoon had ordered them to drag the legislators.
The investigations on Yoon intensified the already serious internal division of the country, with rival demonstrators regularly organizing rallies in downtown Seoul.
After a local court on January 19 approved an official arrest warrant to extend the detention of Yoon, dozens of his supporters stormed the court building, destroying windows, doors and other goods . They also attacked police with bricks, steel pipes and other objects. The violence left 17 police officers injured and the police said they had arrested 46 demonstrators.
Yoon earned the efforts of the investigative authorities earlier to question it or hold it. It was then apprehended on January 15 in a massive operation of application of the law in its presidential compound.
Yoon’s management of the investigation was the corruption investigation office for senior officials, but since his detention, Yoon has refused to attend the question of the IOC, saying that he did not have the Being legal to investigate the allegations of rebellion. The IOC said that he could investigate Yoon’s allegation of rebellion because it is linked to its abuse of power and other allegations.
Yoon has the presidential immunity of most criminal proceedings, but the privilege does not extend to allegations of rebellion or betrayal.
On Friday, the IOC gave Yoon’s file to the office of Seoul prosecutors and asked him to integrate it into the rebellion, the abuse of power and the obstruction of the National Assembly. By law in South Korea, the head of a rebellion may risk in life prison or the death penalty.
In a statement on Saturday, Yoon’s defense team urged prosecutors to immediately release Yoon and launch an investigation into the IOC.
The Minister of Defense of Yoon, the police chief and several other military commanders have already been arrested for their roles in the decree of martial law.
