This is the first time in the history of South Korea when the president receives a corresponding criminal charges. If Yoon is found guilty, he may be threatened with a sentence of years in prison.
12: 28 • Updated 13:05
In South Korea, President Yoon Suk-Yeol gets a criminal offense of leading the rebellion. Yonhap from South Korean reports.
In the background is the Emergency December December. On December 3, Yoon declared a state of emergency in South Korea, which plunged into the country’s political chaos.
This is the first time in the history of South Korea when the president receives a corresponding criminal charges. If Yoon is found guilty, he may be threatened with a sentence of years in prison.
According to Reuters, a rebellion in South Korea may even receive a life sentence or death sentence in South Korea, although South Korea has not implemented death penalties for decades.
“Punishing the rebellion leaders finally begins”
The South Korean opposition considered the proclamation as a coup attempt. A representative of the opposition leading to a democratic party Han Min-Soo Said the media on Sunday that punishing the rebellion leadership “finally” starts. “
Yoon has been sitting arrested since mid -January. The South Korean Parliament placed yoon on the post already in mid-December.
Yoon has denied abuse. Last week, at the hearing of the Constitution, the lawyers suggested that the president would not have intended to declare a complete emergency. According to lawyers, Yoon would have given the declaration as a kind of warning that would have been intended to break the political stalemate.
Separate handling of the Constitutional Court is whether the president is in charge.
Sources: Reuters, AFP, AP