<p>Seoul: South Korea's prosecutors indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec 3, the main opposition party said.</p><p>"The prosecution has decided to indict Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing charges of being a ringleader of insurrection," Democratic Party spokesman Han Min-soo told a press conference. "The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally."</p><p>The indictment was also reported by South Korean media.</p><p>Anti-corruption investigators last week recommended charging the jailed Yoon, who was impeached by parliament and suspended from his duties over the incident.</p><p>Yoon's lawyers had urged the prosecutors to immediately release the him from what they call illegal custody.</p><p>Under criminal investigation, he has been in custody since becoming the first sitting president to be arrested on Jan. 15.</p>.Israel-Hamas row over hostage return puts truce through new test.<p>Insurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity. It is punishable by life imprisonment or death, although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades.</p><p>Yoon and his lawyers argued at a Constitutional Court hearing last week in his impeachment trial that he never intended to fully impose martial law but had only meant the measures as a warning to break political deadlock.</p><p>In parallel with his criminal process, the top court will determine whether to remove Yoon from office or reinstate his presidential powers, with 180 days to decide.</p><p>South Korea's opposition-led parliament impeached Yoon on Dec. 14, making him the second conservative president to be impeached in the country.</p><p>Yoon rescinded his martial law after about six hours after lawmakers from the main opposition party, confronting soldiers in parliament, voted down the decree.</p><p>Soldiers equipped with rifles, body armour and night-vision equipment, were seen entering the parliament building through smashed windows during the dramatic confrontation.</p>
<p>Seoul: South Korea's prosecutors indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec 3, the main opposition party said.</p><p>"The prosecution has decided to indict Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing charges of being a ringleader of insurrection," Democratic Party spokesman Han Min-soo told a press conference. "The punishment of the ringleader of insurrection now begins finally."</p><p>The indictment was also reported by South Korean media.</p><p>Anti-corruption investigators last week recommended charging the jailed Yoon, who was impeached by parliament and suspended from his duties over the incident.</p><p>Yoon's lawyers had urged the prosecutors to immediately release the him from what they call illegal custody.</p><p>Under criminal investigation, he has been in custody since becoming the first sitting president to be arrested on Jan. 15.</p>.Israel-Hamas row over hostage return puts truce through new test.<p>Insurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity. It is punishable by life imprisonment or death, although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades.</p><p>Yoon and his lawyers argued at a Constitutional Court hearing last week in his impeachment trial that he never intended to fully impose martial law but had only meant the measures as a warning to break political deadlock.</p><p>In parallel with his criminal process, the top court will determine whether to remove Yoon from office or reinstate his presidential powers, with 180 days to decide.</p><p>South Korea's opposition-led parliament impeached Yoon on Dec. 14, making him the second conservative president to be impeached in the country.</p><p>Yoon rescinded his martial law after about six hours after lawmakers from the main opposition party, confronting soldiers in parliament, voted down the decree.</p><p>Soldiers equipped with rifles, body armour and night-vision equipment, were seen entering the parliament building through smashed windows during the dramatic confrontation.</p>