South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Indicted for Leading Insurrection

Yoon faces criminal charges after his failed attempt to declare martial law, becoming the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.

Yoon Suk Yeol, the suspended president of South Korea, has been formally indicted for his role as the leader of an alleged insurrection following his attempt to declare martial law on December 3, 2024.
Prosecutors justified his detention by citing a significant risk of evidence tampering and emphasized that insurrection charges are not protected by presidential immunity.
Yoon's martial law declaration lasted only six hours before being overturned by an emergency parliamentary session, plunging the country into its worst political crisis in decades.
He was arrested on January 15, 2025, after weeks of resistance from his security detail and is currently being held in a Seoul detention center while awaiting trial within the next six months.
South Korea's Constitutional Court is also reviewing his impeachment, which, if upheld, would permanently remove him from office and trigger a new presidential election within 60 days.