Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, April 14 (Reporter Lu Rui, Huang Xinxin) The Criminal Collegiate Panel of the Central District Court of Seoul, South Korea held its first trial on the case of former President Yoon Seo-yeol suspected of launching civil unrest. Yoon Seo-yeon himself attended the trial and denied all the charges made by the prosecution.

  The trial process on that day will not be made public. According to Yonhap News Agency and other media reports, the prosecutor and Yoon Seo-young respectively explained their basic positions through trial statements.

  The South Korean procuratorate stated that the defendant prohibited the constitutional organs from exercising their powers in accordance with the unconstitutional and illegal martial law notice order, and announced emergency martial law with the purpose of eliminating the party system. The procuratorate also called the emergency martial law implemented on December 3 last year "an riot with the purpose of disrupting the national constitutional order."

  In his statement, Yoon Seok-yeol dismissed the allegations of civil unrest. He argued that it was not legal to accept the lifting of martial law requirements adopted by Congress in a non-violent manner within just a few hours, and to define an incident that ends for only a few hours as civil unrest.

  The Seoul Central District Court is scheduled to hold its second trial on the case on April 21.

  On January 26, the South Korean Procuratorate's Special Investigation Department's Emergency Martial Law Investigation Department detained Yoon Seo-yeol for "suspectedly launching civil unrest". Yoon Seo-hyo became the first incumbent president in South Korea's constitutional history to be prosecuted. On April 4, the South Korean Constitutional Court announced the adoption of the impeachment of Yoon Seo-yeol, and Yoon Seo-yeol was immediately removed from office as president.

[Editor in charge: Wang Xue]