{"id":69973,"date":"2025-03-09T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/mar\/08\/south-koreas-impeached-president-released-from-prison-video"},"modified":"2025-03-09T00:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:02:27","slug":"south-koreas-impeached-president-released-from-prison-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69973","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s impeached president released from prison \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from a detention centre a day after the Seoul central district court accepted Yoon&#8217;s petition to cancel his custody. The impeached president was greeted by more than 50,000 supporters in the capital while a counter-protest took place nearby. In a statement on Facebook, Yoon said: &#8216;I would like to thank the central district court for their courage and determination in correcting the illegality.&#8217; Despite his release, Yoon still faces criminal and impeachment trials after he was arrested for his failed attempt to impose martial law on 3 December. If he is found guilty of insurrection, he could face life imprisonment or the death penalty. Meanwhile, if his impeachment is upheld, he would be removed from office permanently, triggering a snap election within 60 days<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/07\/president-yoon-suk-yeol-detention-cancelled-insurrection-case\"><strong>South Korea court cancels President Yoon\u2019s detention as insurrection case continues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/mar\/08\/south-koreas-impeached-president-released-from-prison-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from a detention centre a day after the Seoul central district court accepted Yoon&#8217;s petition to cancel his custody. The impeached president was greeted by more than 50,000 supporters in the capital while a counter-prote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-69973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions\/69974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}