South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant.
Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on Saturday, waving his hand and bowing deeply to his supporters.
His lawyers said the court decision “confirmed that the president’s detainment was problematic in both procedural and substantive aspects”, calling the ruling the “beginning of a journey to restore rule of law”.
Yoon’s team filed the request to cancel his arrest warrant with the Seoul Central District Court last month, pleading it was illegal. He was arrested in January on insurrection charges over his brief imposition of martial law in December.
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Earlier on Saturday, South Korean prosecutors ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from custody.
“The Emergency Martial Law Special Investigation Headquarters has sent a release order for President Yoon to Seoul Detention Center today,” the prosecution said in a statement on Saturday, according to local media outlet Yonhap.
On Friday, the Seoul Central District Court said it accepted Yoon’s request to be released from prison, citing the need to address questions over the legality of the investigations on the president.
Investigators have alleged that Yoon’s brief martial law decree amounted to rebellion. If he is convicted of that offence, he would face the death penalty or life imprisonment.
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