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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea n prosecutors on Sunday, January 26, 2025, indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law , a criminal charge that could incur the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted.This is the latest blow to Yoon, who was impeached and arrested over his December 3 martial law decree that plunged the country into political turmoil, shook its financial markets and hurt its international image.
However, it evoked painful memories of past dictatorial rules in South Korea in the 1960s-80s when military-backed rulers used martial laws and emergency decrees to suppress opponents.South Korea’s constitution gives the president the power to declare martial law to keep order in wartime and other comparable emergency states, but many experts say the country wasn’t under such conditions when Yoon declared martial law.
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