SEOUL – Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to seven years in prison by an appeals court Wednesday for blocking law enforcement officials who were trying to carry out his arrest warrant following his brief martial law announcement in December 2024.
The Seoul High Court announced the verdict during a broadcast proceeding, marking the first ruling from a specialized court division created specifically to handle legal matters connected to Yoon’s attempted martial law implementation last year.
The charges against the former president center on his efforts to prevent investigators from executing the arrest warrant issued against him after his controversial decision to impose martial law, which lasted only a short period before being reversed.
