On the 19th local time, the special investigation team for internal conflicts in South Korea initiated a detention and prosecution against former President Yoon Suk-yeol.
On December 3rd last year, then-President Yoon Suk-yeol issued an emergency martial law order. On the same day of the month, the South Korean National Assembly passed a motion to impeach Yoon Suk-yeol, immediately suspending his presidential powers. On January 15th this year, Yoon Suk-yeol was first arrested, becoming the first current president in South Korean constitutional history to be arrested. On March 8th, Yoon Suk-yeol was released. On April 4th, the Constitutional Court of South Korea announced that it had approved the impeachment motion against Yoon Suk-yeol, leading to his removal from office as president.
On July 10th, the Central District Court of Seoul issued a detention warrant on the grounds of “concern about (suspect) destroying evidence,” resulting in Yoon Suk-yeol’s second arrest, primarily related to suspicions of obstructing special duties and abuse of power within the context of internal conflict charges. Yoon Suk-yeol is currently detained at the Seoul Detention Center.
From Yoon Suk-yeol’s second arrest on the 10th until the 16th, the South Korean prosecutors initiated four investigations requiring Yoon Suk-yeol’s attendance, all of which failed. The special investigation team had previously stated that they were actively exploring the possibility of directly prosecuting Yoon Suk-yeol within his detention period. (CCTV Zhang Yun)
The court ruled the arrest of Yoon Suk-yeol legal, with “a heated debate lasting six hours”
Yoon Suk-yeol absented himself from the trial of the internal conflict case again, with his lawyer stating he was so weak that he could not even “climb stairs.”