

SEOUL: A Seoul court rejected a second request on Saturday to extend the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed attempt to declare martial law, putting pressure on prosecutors to quickly indict him. The Seoul Central District Court on Saturday turned down a request for a detention extension, prosecutors said in a brief statement. This follows a ruling by the same court a day earlier when a judge stated it was "difficult to find sufficient grounds" to grant an extension.
Prosecutors had planned to keep the disgraced leader in custody until February 6 for questioning before formally indicting him, but that plan will now need to be adjusted. "With the court's rejection of the extension, prosecutors must now work quickly to formally indict Yoon to keep him behind bars," Yoo Jung-hoon, an attorney and political commentator, said. Yoon has refused to cooperate with the criminal probe, with his legal defence team arguing investigators lack legal authority. — AFP
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