{"id":4307,"date":"2025-01-01T06:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2025-01-01T06:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:01:51","slug":"south-korean-court-approves-arrest-of-impeached-president-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=4307","title":{"rendered":"South Korean court approves arrest of impeached president Yoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: A South Kor\u00ade\u00adan court gave authorities approval on Tuesday to detain impeached Presi\u00addent Yoon Suk Yeol in a criminal investigation into his martial law dec\u00adree, marking the first time that a sitting president of the country has faced arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Corruption Invest\u00adigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) confirmed the Seoul Western District Court approved an arrest warrant requested by investigators examining Yoon\u2019s short-lived imposition of martial law.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon, who has been suspended from office, is facing an investigation on allegations that he was the lea\u00adder of an insurrection, one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity. Sep\u00ada\u00adrately, his trial on impeachment is being heard at the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest warrant for an incumbent president is unprecedented, and deepens the political crisis that has engulfed South Korea, Asia\u2019s fourth-largest economy and a key US ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: A South Kor\u00ade\u00adan court gave authorities approval on Tuesday to detain impeached Presi\u00addent Yoon Suk Yeol in a criminal investigation into his martial law dec\u00adree, marking the first time that a sitting president of the country has faced arrest. The Corruption Invest\u00adigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) confirmed the Seoul Western District Court approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}