{"id":68966,"date":"2025-01-17T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-jailed-impeachment-updates"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:41:43","slug":"arrested-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-stays-silent-as-detention-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68966","title":{"rendered":"Arrested South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol stays silent as detention deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say impeached president will not attend questioning, with investigators expected to seek warrant to extend his detention<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend a new round of questioning by investigators on Friday, his lawyer said, as authorities face an imminent deadline to obtain a warrant to extend his detention or release the embattled leader.<\/p>\n<p>In order to hold Yoon in custody for longer, investigators are expected on Friday to ask a court to approve a detention warrant for up to 20 days, legal experts said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president-jailed-impeachment-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say impeached president will not attend questioning, with investigators expected to seek warrant to extend his detentionSouth Korea\u2019s arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend a new round of questioning by investigators on Friday, his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions\/68967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}