Taipei Times
AsiaPac · 5 mins ago
Seven-year prison sentence upheld for S Korea’s Yoon
AP, SEOUL The South Korean Supreme Court yesterday upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol in the first case to reach the country’s highest court from his several criminal trials related to his brief imposition of martial law in 2024.The court upheld an April ruling by the Seoul High Court that found Yoon guilty of infringing on Cabinet members’ right to deliberate before he declared martial law, falsifying the official proclamation to cover up the lapse before later destroying the document and deploying presidential security forces to illegally resist law enforcement efforts to arrest him weeks after his impeachment.Martial law lasted only hours before lawmakers broke through a blockade of heavily armed soldiers and police at Seoul’s National As
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