South Korea’s ex-president Yoon indicted again as martial law probe continues

SEOUL - South Korea’s jailed former president Yoon Suk Yeol was indicted on additional charges on July 19 as a special prosecutor continues investigating him for his short-lived declaration of martial law in December.

The new charges include obstruction of the exercise of others’ rights by abuse of authority, ordering the deletion of records and blocking the execution of arrest warrants, the prosecutor’s office said in a briefing.

Yoon, who has been on trial on

charges of insurrection

, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment, is now facing additional charges after the special prosecutor was appointed in June to take over the cases against him.

Yoon has denied all wrongdoing. His lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new charges.

The impeached and deposed former leader has been

jailed at Seoul Detention Centre

since early July, and a court earlier this week rejected his request to be freed from detention. REUTERS