Detention Hearing Ends, Yoon Arrives at Seoul Detention Center... Results Expected Overnight

Likely to Await Results in the Waiting Room

President Yoon Seok-yeol, against whom an arrest warrant has been requested on charges of leading the 12·3 emergency martial law-related rebellion, underwent a pre-arrest detention hearing (warrant substantive examination) at the court and returned to Seoul Detention Center.

On the 18th, President Yoon finished the warrant substantive examination around 6:50 PM, departed from the Seoul Western District Court at 7:34 PM, and arrived at Seoul Detention Center around 8:00 PM.

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President Yoon used a detention center transport vehicle, and security vehicles escorted the transport vehicle carrying him. The police controlled the surrounding traffic along President Yoon’s route from the Western District Court to the detention center. He also used the detention center transport vehicle when attending the warrant substantive examination.

President Yoon will stay alone in the detainee waiting room inside the detention center while awaiting the result of the warrant examination. The decision on whether to issue the arrest warrant is expected to be announced late at night or early morning on the 19th at the earliest. It is also possible that he will watch media coverage of his arrest warrant hearing through the TV inside the waiting room. The waiting room is known to be equipped with a TV and blankets.

If the arrest warrant is issued, President Yoon will go through the formal admission procedures at the detention center and be held there. Including the detention period, he will be investigated while in custody for up to 20 days. On the other hand, if the warrant is dismissed, he will be immediately released from Seoul Detention Center and return to the presidential residence in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

President Yoon has been staying at Seoul Detention Center for four days since his arrest by the High-ranking Officials’ Crime Investigation Division on the 15th.

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