South Korean prosecutors accused the recalled President Yoon Suk Yela of his short -term introduction to the outstanding state of the rebellion on Sunday, reported news reports, a criminal accusation that could sentence him to death or a life prison if convicted.
This is the last shot of Yoon, who was recalled and arrested for a decree on an extraordinary state of December 3, which pushed the country into political turmoil. Separately from criminal court proceedings, the Constitutional Court now decides whether to officially replace Yoon from the post of president or return it to duty.
South Korean media, including Yonhap news agency, reported that the Prosecutor’s Office of the Seoul Central District accused Yoon of rebellion. The calls of the prosecutor’s office and Yoon’s lawyers remained unanswered.
Yon, a conservative, has undoubtedly denied any guilt, calling his military state a legitimate act of management that aims to raise public awareness of the danger of a national assembly under the control of a liberal, which obstructed his plan and recalled the most officials. During his announcement of the extraordinary situation, Yoon called the Assembly “Criminal Criminals” and promised to eliminate “shameless followers of North Korea and anti -state power.”
After declaring a state of emergency on December 3, Yoon sent an army and police officers to the assembly, but enough MPs still managed to enter the Assembly Hall to unanimously vote Yoon’s decree, forcing his cabinet to abolish him.
The introduction of the extraordinary situation, first of its kind in South Korea in more than 40 years, lasted only six hours. However, he woke up painful memories of past 1960s and 1980s dictatorial rules when the rulers supported by the army used extraordinary conditions and decrees of extraordinary state to suppress opponents.
The South Korean Constitution gives the President the authority to declare an extraordinary situation in order to maintain order in war and similar extraordinary states, but many experts say that the country was not in such conditions when Yoon declared a state of emergency.
Yoon insists that he had no intention of interfering with the work of the Assembly, including voting on his regulation and that sending the trunk and police forces aimed at maintaining order. But the commanders of military units sent to the Assembly were told at assembly hearing or investigators that Yoon had ordered them to draw MPs.