(VOVWORLD) - South Korean prosecutors indicted detained President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law last month.
With the indictment, Yoon, who is also facing an impeachment trial, has become the first sitting president in South Korea's history to be indicted under detention.
The move comes just one day before Yoon's detention period was set to end. Yoon was formally arrested on January 19. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which had led the investigation into Yoon, transferred the case to the prosecution last week as the agency does not have a legal mandate to indict a president.
Earlier Sunday, senior prosecutors from across the country gathered to discuss the next steps in Yoon's case.