Lawyers for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Feb. 24 said he has appealed the life sentence a Seoul court handed him for rebellion in relation to his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
Seoul Central District Court on Feb. 19 found Yoon guilty on charges of abuse of authority and orchestrating an insurrection. The former president’s lawyers said in their appeal of the conviction that they aim to address the “errors in fact-finding and misinterpretations of the law” contained in the ruling.
“We will never be silent about what we view as an excessive indictment by a special prosecutor, the contradictory judgment rendered by the lower court based on that premise, and its political circumstances,” Yoon’s legal team said….
Former South Korean President Appeals Life Sentence for Insurrection Over Martial Law Decree
