South Korean court on Thursday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment for his failed attempt to impose a military emergency in 2024.
Reporting from Yonhap, Thursday, February 19, in the first ruling in this case, the Seoul Central District Court found Yoon guilty of leading a rebellion through the attempt to impose martial law, but sentenced him to a lighter sentence than the death penalty recommended by the special prosecutor.
The court confirmed that the military emergency order was the same as an uprising because the former president tried to paralyze the National Assembly by sending troops to the parliament complex.
In addition, the court repeatedly emphasized the core of this case was the deployment of Yoon's troops to the National Assembly.
The trial was attended by the jailed former president and broadcast live on national television.
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