Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol gets life sentence over martial law attempt

The ruling, delivered by Seoul Central District Court judge Jee Kui-youn, matched what prosecutors sought at the trial's final hearing in January.

🔴 South Korean court sentences ex-president Yoon to life in prison for 2024 insurrection

By FRANCE24

[Breaking] Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection

The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection. The verdict came 443 days after Yoon’s imposition of martial law on Dec. 3, 2024, which lasted six hours and triggered the country’s most severe constitutional crisis since democratization. He became the first sitting president to be indicted with physical detention in January last year and was removed from office in April.

By The Korea Herald

South Korea’s ex-president Yoon found guilty of insurrection

A South Korean court on Thursday found former president Yoon Suk-yeol guilty of insurrection over his short-lived martial law decree that plunged the country into its most serious constitutional crisis in decades. The verdict, delivered by a three-judge panel of the Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Division 25, was the harshest and most consequential ruling yet stemming from Yoon’s brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024, and the events leading up to it. The court found that...

By Park Chan-kyong

South Korean court begins session to rule on ex‑President Yoon’s insurrection trial

Masterminding an insurrection carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life imprisonment under South Korean law

By Reuters