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The South Korean court resolutions burdened the President released from prison

A television screen shows film material from the accused South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the final hearing of his process during a news broadcast program in a bust terminal in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, February 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-Joo) (Ahn Young-Joon, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

SEOUL – A South Korean court ordered the accused President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from prison.

The Yonhap news agency reported that the Seoul Central District court made the judgment on Friday. Other South Korean media had similar reports.

The court did not immediately confirm the reports.

Yoon was arrested in January in connection with his war law decrees on December 3.

The investigators claimed that the decree is the rebellion. If he was convicted of this crime, he would face the death penalty or lifelong detention.

Yoon was charged separately by the legislator in December and left it to the Constitutional Court to decide whether Yoon's presidency should officially end or reinstate it.

If the Constitutional Court maintains Yoon's ceremony, it will be officially thrown out of office and a national election will be recorded to choose its successor within two months.