South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested
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The news: South Korean authorities have arrested and detained the country’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol following his retracted declaration of martial law last month.
The context: Yoon is being investigated on possible allegations of insurrection after being detained at the presidential residence in Seoul.
The special investigators now have 48 hours to request a formal arrest warrant to keep Yoon in detention as a criminal investigation is carried out.
It is the first time a South Korean sitting president has been arrested. A first attempt to arrest him on 3 January failed after a standoff with Yoon's armed bodyguards.
Yoon was stripped of his presidential powers after being impeached on 14 December. Prime Minister and acting President Han Duck-Soo was then impeached for declining to make certain judicial appointments two weeks later.
On Monday, South Korea's second acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered the police and Yoon's secret service not to block the arrest warrant.
