Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday was sentenced to five years in prison by the Seoul Central District Court on charges including obstruction of justice, in the first verdict related to his short-lived martial law declaration in December 2024. The court ruled that Yoon obstructed investigators attempting to detain him, violated the rights of Cabinet members who were not consulted on his martial law plan, and drafted and later destroyed a revised martial law proclamation after the decree was lifted. He was also accused of ordering the deletion of records from secure military phones.

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