{"id":53967,"date":"2025-04-21T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/s-korea-s-ousted-president-yoon-attends-2nd-criminal-trial-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:03:16","slug":"s-korea-s-ousted-president-yoon-attends-2nd-criminal-trial-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/s-korea-s-ousted-president-yoon-attends-2nd-criminal-trial-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s ousted president Yoon attends 2nd criminal trial hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon entered a courtroom of the Seoul Central District Court around 9:57 a.m. local time (0057 GMT) after arriving at the court through its underground parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>He was photographed and filmed in the defendant&#8217;s seat by photographers and cameramen, who left the courtroom before the hearing was formally launched.<\/p>\n<p>On April 4, the constitutional court upheld a motion by the parliament to impeach Yoon over his short-lived martial law imposition. With the court&#8217;s decision, the conservative leader officially lost all presidential power.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon declared an emergency martial law on the night of Dec. 3 last year, but it was revoked by the opposition-led National Assembly hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment motion against Yoon was passed in the parliament on Dec. 14 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon was apprehended in the presidential office on Jan. 15 and was indicted under detention on Jan. 26 as a suspected ringleader of insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted of being the insurrection ringleader, Yoon could face the death penalty or life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on March 8 as the prosecution decided not to appeal against the court&#8217;s release approval.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86070\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png\" alt=\"South Korea&#039;s ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol attends the second hearing of his criminal trial over insurrection charges in Seoul, South Korea, April 21, 2025. (Newsis via Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol on Monday attended the second hearing of his criminal trial over insurrection charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000086069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000086069,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2ccvhsgdglu1zcyf.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}