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SEOUL — Hundreds of supporters of South Korea 's arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol , stormed a court building early on Sunday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an attack the country's acting leader called "unimaginable."Yoon on Wednesday became the first sitting South Korea n president to be arrested as he faces allegations of insurrection related to his stunning, short-lived Dec.
The CIO said it would ask Yoon to come in for questioning on Monday, and forbade anyone from visiting him at the detention center apart from his lawyers.His lawyers have argued the arrest is illegal because the warrant was issued in the wrong jurisdiction and the investigating team had no mandate for their probe.Insurrection, the crime that Yoon may be charged with, is one of the few that a South Korean president does not have immunity from and is technically punishable by death.
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