President Yoon, if you're arrested, you'll be in solitary confinement...If rejected, release immediately.

2025.01.18. AM 04:55
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President detains suspect waiting room with minimum facility
When arrested, move to the accommodation...Wear hand-made clothes instead of plain clothes
In case of arrest, the prospect of accepting solitary confinement...Consider the status of the incumbent president
If the warrant is dismissed, President Yoon will be immediately released to Hannam-dong's official residence.
[Anchor]
As a result of today's substantial examination of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, if the warrant is issued, President Yoon is expected to be transferred from the waiting room for the suspect to the solitary confinement in the detention center.

If rejected, he will be immediately released and returned to his official residence in Hannam-dong for investigation without detention.

Reporter Lim Sung-ho's report.

[Reporter]
President Yoon Suk Yeol is currently staying in a suspect's waiting room inside the Seoul Detention Center.

The waiting room for the suspect is said to have only a television, a folding mattress, and a blanket in the partition bathroom.
If an arrest warrant is issued for
, President Yoon will have to move to Suyeong-dong, where pending prisoners stay.

From this point on, you have to wear a prison uniform with a prison number instead of your plain clothes and follow the rules of the detention center like other inmates.

However, as President Yoon is an incumbent president, his residence is expected to be moved to solitary confinement, not where several inmates live.
Prior to
, former President Park Geun Hye lived in a solitary cell with a floor space of about three pyeong in the Seoul Detention Center, and former President Lee Myung Bak lived in a similar size solitary cell in the Eastern Seoul Detention Center.

The Ministry of Justice said it is not making specific preparations because it has not yet decided whether President Yoon will be arrested, but
When using external facilities such as
public bathhouses, it is expected to prevent contact with other inmates by adjusting the usage time.

If the warrant is rejected, President Yoon will be immediately released and returned to his official residence in Hannam-dong for investigation without detention.

I'm YTN's Lim Sung Ho.


Video editing: Kim Ji-yeon
Design: Kim Jin-ho



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