{"id":1333,"date":"2025-06-25T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/south-korea-court-rejects-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-yoon-yonhap-says\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:50:14","slug":"south-korea-court-rejects-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-yoon-yonhap-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/south-korea-court-rejects-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-yoon-yonhap-says\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea court rejects arrest warrant for ex-President Yoon, Yonhap says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tSEOUL: A South Korean court has rejected a request to issue an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol related to a probe into his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, the Yonhap News Agency said on Wednesday, citing a special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA spokesperson for the Seoul Central District Court and the prosecution office could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSouth Korea&rsquo;s special prosecutor had asked the court on Tuesday to issue an arrest warrant for Yoon as an investigation intensified over the ousted leader&rsquo;s botched bid to declare martial law in December.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYoon, who is already facing a criminal trial on insurrection charges for issuing the martial law declaration, was arrested in January after resisting authorities trying to take him into custody, but was released after 52 days on technical grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new warrant was on a charge of obstruction, a senior member of the special prosecutor&rsquo;s team of investigators said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                       <!-- \n                        \n\n<div id=\"POSTQUARE_WIDGET_122392\"><\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>South Korea court rejects arrest warrant for ex-President Yoon, Yonhap says<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: A South Korean court has rejected a request to issue an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol related to a probe into his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, the Yonhap News Agency said on Wednesday, citing a special prosecutor. A spokesperson for the Seoul Central District Court and the prosecution office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/south-korea-court-rejects-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-yoon-yonhap-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;South Korea court rejects arrest warrant for ex-President Yoon, Yonhap says&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}