On the 9th at the Supreme Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, staff close the main gate ahead of the appellate ruling date in the case against former President Yoon Suk-yeol over alleged obstruction of arrest by the CIO. /Courtesy of Yonhap News

The Supreme Court on the 9th found it lawful that the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), while investigating Yoon Suk-yeol, the former president who declared the Dec. 3 emergency martial law, on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of another's rights, opened an investigation into insurrection.

The Supreme Court's Third Division (presiding Justice Lee Sook-yeon) held a sentencing hearing for the appeal in the case against the former president on charges including obstruction of special official duties and abuse of power and obstruction of another's rights at 2 p.m. that day in Supreme Court Courtroom No. 1.

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