Yoon Suk Yeol Sentenced to 7 Years for Resisting Arrest

0:00On April 29th, a South Korean appeals court just hit former President Yoon Soo-gil with a seven-year prison sentence for resisting arrest and dodging. A full cabinet meeting before his short-lived martial law declaration back on December 3rd, 2024. This stacks on top of the life sentence he's already facing from rebellion charges tied to that wild power grab, which saw him fake documents and use. Security forces like his own personal squad to block cops. The whole mess sparked South Korea's biggest democratic crisis in decades, freezing politics, diplomacy, and markets until arrival won the snap. Election in June, leading to Yoon's impeachment and ouster. His lawyers called it disappointing and planned a Supreme Court appeal, while a lower court had given him just five years before getting overruled on all. Counts. Meanwhile, the same court bumped his wife's sentence to four years for graft and stock schemes, and prosecutors want 30 years more for Yoon over. North Korea drone stunts, trials keep rolling as the nation stays locked in.

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