{"id":69137,"date":"2025-01-26T20:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/26\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeoul-indicted"},"modified":"2025-01-26T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T11:17:45","slug":"south-korean-president-indicted-for-insurrection-over-martial-law-decree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69137","title":{"rendered":"South Korean president indicted for insurrection over martial law decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeoul could face years in prison after six-hour imposition which set off political upheaval<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s prosecutors indicted the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on 3 December, the main opposition party said.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are unprecedented for a South Korean president, and if convicted, Yoon could face years in prison for his shock martial law decree, which sought to ban political and parliamentary activity and control the media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/26\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeoul-indicted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeoul could face years in prison after six-hour imposition which set off political upheavalSouth Korea\u2019s prosecutors indicted the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his sho&#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":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","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\/69137","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=69137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69137\/revisions\/69138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}