South Korea's Impeached Prez Yoon Released From Detention

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was released from detention on Saturday after a court voided his arrest on procedural grounds — but he remains under investigation over his declaration of martial law.

- Agence France-Presse

SEOUL:

The suspended president, who was detained in a dawn raid in January on insurrection charges over his December 3 attempt to subvert civilian rule, walked out of the detention centre smiling, before bowing deeply before a small crowd of cheering supporters.

"I bow my head in gratitude to the people of this nation," Yoon said in a statement released through his lawyers.

A day earlier, a court had cancelled his arrest warrant on technical and legal grounds — a decision that prosecutors probing Yoon said in a statement Saturday was "unjust".