South Korean President Yun Suk Yeol was released from Saturday after a court made an arrest on a procedural basis – but it remains under investigation on the declaration of martial law.
The suspended president, who was detained in a dawn raid in January, moved out of the detention center on December 3, before a small crowd of cheering supporters, in allegations of rebellion on his effort of civil rule, smiling from the detention center.
“I thank the people of this nation,” Yun said in a statement issued through his lawyers.
A day earlier, a court quashed its arrest warrant on technical and legal basis – a decision that the prosecutors investigating this were “unjust”.
After the prosecutors waived their right to appeal to the court’s verdict, this was freed, which was especially about the technical details of their custody on criminal allegations.
Yun has faced a separate constitutional court as to maintain his impeachment and formally snatch it from the post, the judges are expected to be on any day with the decision of the judges.
The prosecutors said that “In view of the decisions and related views of the Constitutional Court, the prosecutor General has directed the team to actively present their arguments before the trial court, instead,” appeal to release from the release of Yun.
South Korea should hold a fresh presidential election within 60 days if this is removed.
The criminal case against him will continue even though he has been formally taken away from the post.
‘Restoration of rule of law’
The lawyers of Yun, who had filed a request to cancel their arrest last month, were illegal while arguing in their custody as the prosecution waited a long wait to motivate him, welcomed his release.
“The release of the President reflects the restoration of the rule of law,” his legal team said in a statement.
As such, he joined a convoy of vehicles and went straight to the President’s residence, AFP reporters saw, out of his car outside the President’s premises, waiting for hundreds of cheer supporters.
The opposition slammed the verdict, the Democratic Party leader Lee J-Mung said at a rally that he would “fight until the rebellion ends”.
A former prosecutor, Yun, submerged Democratic South Korea in December and briefly suspended civil rule and sent the soldiers to Parliament.
He has been accused of rebellion for his martial law announcement, which MPs voted within hours before impeaching him.
The 64 -year -old opposed the arrest for two weeks, in a stressful deadlock between his security team and investigators at his official residence in Seoul. He was finally taken into custody on 15 January.
Most of the testing of impeachment focuses on whether Yun has violated the constitution by announcing martial law, which is reserved for national emergency or war time.
The opposition has accused them of taking extraordinary measures without proper justification.
The lawyers of this have said that they declared martial law to alert the country for the dangers of “legislative dictators” by the opposition.
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