South Korea's former justice minister Park Sung-jae has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his involvement in the failed martial law attempt involving ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, as reported by Reuters and YLE.
The sentence relates to events in December 2024, when South Korea's president Yoon Suk-yeol declared a state of emergency in the country, which was lifted by the parliament a few hours later. Because of this, the ex-president was later sentenced to life in prison. The court found that he used the state of emergency to paralyse parliament in a political dispute.