South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is in court for a hearing where his lawyers are contesting his arrest on a criminal charge alleging he was orchestrating a rebellion when he imposed martial law.

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country’s first criminal prosecution of an incumbent leader.

South Korean police are formally investigating impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for allegedly obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant, a police spokesperson confirmed on Friday. A court issued an arrest warrant