Overview
- The Seoul Central District Court held its eighth consecutive hearing without Yoon, citing a detention center report that forced transport was not feasible under rules allowing proceedings when a defendant refuses to attend.
- Yoon has declined to appear since his second arrest on July 10, with his legal team attributing his absence to health issues.
- Monday’s docket included planned testimony from a Defense Counterintelligence Command official involved in the martial law operations at issue.
- Yoon filed a constitutional petition challenging the special probe bill, and his lawyers asked the court to submit the matter for constitutional review.
- The bench said it aims to conclude proceedings by December and expects to merge Yoon’s case with the insurrection trials of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and police chief Cho Ji-ho.