Lee Jae-myung Detained at Hospital, Prosecution Requests Arrest Warrant... Opposition Calls Prosecution "Lacking Humanity"

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was transported to a hospital on the morning of the 18th due to health issues on the 19th day of his hunger strike. Meanwhile, opposition party lawmakers criticized the prosecution for requesting an arrest warrant against Lee in connection with the Baekhyeon-dong and North Korea remittance allegations, saying it "has lost its humanity."

Democratic Party lawmaker Jo Oh-seop criticized the arrest warrant request on his social media, saying, "An arrest warrant requested against Leader Lee, who was taken away in a 119 ambulance! The prosecution, a power's watchdog that has lost its humanity."

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Democratic Party lawmaker Woo Won-shik also wrote on social media, "Really~ this regime! How can it be so cruel and heartless?" and added, "It seems they have given up being human!"

Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Sung-joo also criticized the prosecution's response, saying, "Leader Lee Jae-myung was transported to the hospital around 7 a.m. today due to deteriorating health on the 19th day of his hunger strike. The prosecution requested an arrest warrant for him at 9 a.m."

Former Democratic Party leader Song Young-gil called it "political prosecution's tyranny," criticizing, "They are proving themselves to be a group that values loyalty to the regime over human lives."

Meanwhile, on the same day, the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office requested an arrest warrant for Lee on charges of breach of trust under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes, bribery under the same act, subornation of perjury, and violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act.

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