The Seoul High Court has approved live broadcasting of the appeal trial for former President Yoon Suk-yeol's case involving obstruction of arrest warrant execution by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO).
According to legal circles on the 3rd, the Criminal Division 1 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judge Yoon Sung-sik) announced it would "permit trial broadcasting in accordance with the special counsel's request" regarding the trial on charges including obstruction of special public duty execution against former President Yoon.
The insurrection special counsel (Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-seok) filed a request for trial broadcasting with the court on the 26th of last month. The court plans to broadcast all trial proceedings starting from the first hearing scheduled for the 4th.
Former President Yoon was indicted on charges including obstructing the CIO's arrest warrant execution through the Presidential Security Service following the declaration of martial law. On the 16th of last month, the first-instance court found him guilty of violating cabinet members' deliberation rights at cabinet meetings, drafting and destroying martial law proclamations after the fact, ordering removal and deletion of encrypted phones, and blocking CIO arrest warrant execution, sentencing him to five years in prison.
Meanwhile, Criminal Division 1, along with Criminal Division 12 (High Court Judges Lee Seung-cheol, Cho Jin-gu, and Kim Min-a), serves as the dedicated insurrection trial division at Seoul High Court. The division has also been assigned the appeal trial of former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, who received a seven-year prison sentence in the first instance on charges including ordering media blackouts.