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The president of South Korea, Yoon Free, the judgments continue after the arrest of the Court.

The president of South Korea, Yoon Free, the judgments continue after the arrest of the Court.

The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, left a detention center on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a judicial decision to cancel the arrest warrant of the leader accused of insurrection charges.

Yoon, 64, remains suspended from his duties, and his criminal and political trials continue for their imposition of short -term martial law on December 3.

The Seoul Central District Court canceled Yoon’s arrest warrant on Friday, citing the moment of his accusation and questions about the legality of the investigation process.

“I would like to thank the Central District Court for its courage and determination to correct illegality,” Yoon said in a statement.

When he left the facilities, a relaxed and smiling yoon, with a dark suit without a tie, left his car, greeted, raised his fist and leaned before the followers who waved flags of South Korea and the United States.

His lawyers said the judicial decision “confirmed that the president’s arrest was problematic both in procedural and noun aspects,” calling the “beginning of a trip to restore the rule of law.”

Prosecutors could not be contacted immediately to comment.

The main Democratic Party of the opposition criticized the decision of the prosecutors to “throw the country already people to the crisis”, and urged the Constitutional Court to eliminate Yoon from office as soon as possible.

In his political trial judgment, the Constitutional Court is expected to decide in the next few days if he will restore or eliminate Yoon.

On Saturday, about 55,000 Yoon supporters joined in the main districts of Seoul, while 32,500 people demonstrated against them near the Constitutional Court, Yonhap news agency reported, citing unofficial police estimates.

The public, however, remains a large extent Anti-Milengo, and 60% of respondents say they must be withdrawn from office and 35% of opponent elimination, according to a Gallup Korea survey on Friday.

Before the decision of the prosecutors, hundreds of Yoon supporters also protested in front of the Office of Supreme Prosecutors.

“I regretted that I couldn’t go out quickly, and it was a difficult time for me to wait, but it was worth the wait,” said Lee Heung-Ok, a 62-year-old supporter who waited for Yoon’s launch at the detention center.

Shim Ye-Rin, 27, said: “I saw him walking on his own feet and greeting his followers. It was a bit ridiculous to me because it seemed something that could not happen in a democratic society, something that was out of common sense. “

Yoon, the first president of South Korea to be arrested while in office, was held at the Seoul detention Center, located in the city of Uiwang, 22 km (14 miles) south of Seoul, since January 15.

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