South Korea: Court rejects objection "yon" To implement the arrest warrant
A court in the South Korean capital rejected, on Sunday, the objection submitted by President Yoon Seok-yul, who demanded that the court orders to arrest him and search the presidential residence be cancelled.
The South Korean news agency (Yonhap) reported that a court The Western District of Seoul made this decision days after Yoon’s legal defense team presented… The objection was to suspend the effect of the orders that they described as “illegal”.
The same court had approved the decision to arrest Yoon. To question him about his role in a failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3, 2024. It also issued a warrant to search the presidential residence complex in central Seoul.
It was the High-Level Officials Corruption Investigation Board, which was dealing with the martial law issue. Lyon had attempted to implement the orders on Friday, but withdrew its employees from the site after a six-hour standoff with the presidential security service, which blocked entry.
Lyon’s legal defense team argued that the orders were flawed. with legal errors, indicating that the judge who issued it arbitrarily decided that the criminal law that prohibits the implementation of search or arrest warrants in restricted military and security zones does not apply to Yoon’s case.
In this context, one of the legal representatives of the South Korean President said Yoon Seok-yeol, lawyer Yoon Gab-gyun, said that the Constitutional Court had previously set the schedule for the five hearings on Yoon’s impeachment, explaining that President Yoon will appear in person in one of the pleadings sessions of his impeachment trial, and will give evidence. In his statements.
According to (Yonhap), “Under the Constitutional Court law, Yoon must attend the first session, and if he refrains from attending, the court sets a date for the next session, and it can proceed with its procedures if he does not attend.” The second session. President.
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