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Aug. 11 (Asia Today) — A South Korean special counsel team indicted former Korea Policy Broadcasting Service chief Lee Eun-woo without detention Tuesday on a charge of promoting insurrection in connection with former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s December 2024 martial law declaration.

The second integrated special counsel team led by Kwon Chang-young said Lee was indicted under the Criminal Act on a charge of insurrection propaganda.

Lee is accused of repeatedly and intensively disseminating information between Dec. 3 and Dec. 13, 2024, asserting the legitimacy of the emergency martial law declaration and related proclamation.

Investigators also allege he selectively blocked or deleted information criticizing or opposing the martial law action.

The special counsel treated the broadcasting activity through Dec. 13, one day before the National Assembly approved Yoon’s impeachment, as a single alleged offense of promoting insurrection.

An official with the special counsel said investigators concluded that an insurrection ends when those responsible abandon their objective or become objectively unable to achieve it.

Under that interpretation, investigators determined that the alleged insurrection did not end simply when emergency martial law was formally lifted.

They instead concluded it continued until Dec. 14, when the National Assembly passed the impeachment motion against Yoon and suspended him from his presidential duties.

Lee is already on trial in a separate case involving allegations related to the deletion of broadcast captions concerning the martial law declaration.

A court in June sentenced him in that case to one year in prison, suspended for two years.

— Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI

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