{"id":68636,"date":"2024-12-30T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/south-korea-seek-arrest-warrant-yoon-suk-yeol-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T03:38:19","slug":"authorities-in-south-korea-seek-arrest-warrant-for-impeached-president-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68636","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in South Korea seek arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities plan to question Yoon on allegations of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion after his short-lived declaration of martial law<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>South Korean law enforcement officials have requested a court warrant to arrest impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree amounted to rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/south-korea-seoul-martial-law-democracy-not-supposed-to-work-like-this\">power grab that lasted only a few hours <\/a>on 3 December, confirmed it requested the warrant from a Seoul court. They plan to question Yoon on allegations of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/south-korea-seek-arrest-warrant-yoon-suk-yeol-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities plan to question Yoon on allegations of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion after his short-lived declaration of martial lawSouth Korean law enforcement officials have requested a court warrant to arrest impeached president, Yo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68637,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68636\/revisions\/68637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}