Court resolutions of the South Korean President Yoon, who was released from prison for his criminal proceedings for war law

Seoul, South Korea (AP)-A South Korean court ordered the accused President Yoon Suk Yeol more than a month after his arrest and accused of his short-lived imposition of war law.

The decision of the Seoul Central District Court would enable Yoon court proceedings without being physically arrested. The hearings in his separate office for office at the Constitutional Court ended at the end of February, and the court will soon decide whether it should be officially removed or reinstated.

The Seoul Central District Court said that Yoon's application for released from prison accepted the legal period of its formal arrest before it was charged at the end of January. The court said that the investigative authority, which Yoon had imprisoned before his formal arrest, had no legal right to examine the indictment for criminal rebellion.

Yoon's defense team welcomed the court's decision and asked the public prosecutor to leave him out immediately. The presidential office also welcomed the court's decision and said it hopes that Yoon will quickly return to work.

South Korean law, however, allows the prosecutors to temporarily keep a suspect while making an appointment.

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

Yoon's war law decrees, which included the shipping of troops and police forces to the National Assembly, caused traumatic memories of past military rules among many South Koreans. The decree only lasted six hours when there was enough legislators to get into a meeting hall, and agreed to unanimously lift them.

Yoon later argued that his decree was only intended to inform the people about the danger of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, which his agenda undergrowed and top officials, and said he had only sent troops to the meeting to maintain the assembly. However, some top military and police officers who were sent to the meeting have told hearing from the Constitutional Court that Yoon ordered them to remove legislators to hinder a vote on their decree or to maintain politicians.

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.

Massive rallies of opponents and supporters of Yoon have filled the streets of Seoul and other large South Korean cities. Whatever the constitutional court decides, experts say that the country will probably continue to polarize and intensify its conservative-liberal gap.

Yoon is the first South Korean president to be arrested in office. South Korean law gives the president's immunity against most criminal persecution, but not because of serious indictment such as rebellion or betrayal.

According to the law, a President in South Korea has the authority to put the country under war law in times of war and similar emergency situations, but many experts say that South Korea was not in such a state when Yoon declared war law.

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