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South Korea's court resources accused President Yoon, who was released from prison for his criminal proceedings

On Friday, a South Korean court ordered the accused President Yoon Suk Yeol to be charged and charged more than a month after his arrest because he was charged because of his short -lived imposition of the war law.

The decision of the Seoul Central District Court would enable Yoon to be in court 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 restored.

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 allows the prosecutors to temporarily keep a suspect while making a call.

The investigators claimed that the decree of war law 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 previous military governments to 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 people about the risk of liberal opposition Democratic Party, who had accused his agenda undergrowth and top official, and said that he had sent troops to the assembly in order to maintain order. Some top military and police officers who were sent to the assembly have said to the constitutional court negotiations or informed the investigators that Yoon ordered them to remove legislators to hinder their decree voting.

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 it will probably continue to polarize the country.

Yoon is the first South Korean president to be arrested in office. South Korean law gives a president of 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.

Kim writes for the Associated Press.