South Korea seeks demise penalty for former president Yoon | EUROtoday

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NEW DELHI – The particular prosecutor who investigated the failed 2024 coup in South Korea has known as for former President Yoon Suk Yeol to be sentenced to demise for committing the crime of revolt. Although many years have handed because the final execution, the South Korean penal code continues to supply for the demise penalty for very critical crimes comparable to these dedicated by Yoon when, within the late night of December 3, 2024, he imposed martial legislation, even when just for a couple of hours.

The 65-year-old former president has all the time rejected the accusations, sustaining that the imposition of the measure suspending civil liberties was a part of his prerogatives and that he had acted to boost consciousness among the many inhabitants in regards to the parliamentary obstructionism of the opposition events. Yoon had been politically rendered impotent by his get together’s electoral defeat within the April 2024 parliamentary elections.

Faced with the impossibility of pursuing his conservative political agenda, the previous president first tried to impress a navy intervention on the a part of North Korea that may justify the imposition of martial legislation, however confronted with the failure of this technique he resorted to what was in all respects an tried self-coup.

Yoon was pressured to backtrack after, on the identical night time of the failed authoritarian breakthrough, a handful of parliamentarians daringly managed to satisfy and reject the measure. The following weeks had been marked first by giant demonstrations after which by Yoon’s impeachment. South Korea elected a brand new president – the progressive Lee Jae Myung – final June.