His criminal case is being handled by a team of investigators under special prosecutor Cho Eun-suk who are pursuing additional charges over Yoon’s authoritarian push, including obstructing official d...

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday after prosecutors secured a new detention warrant over his bid to impose martial law last year.

Yoon’s brief, ill-fated imposition of martial law on Dec. 3 led to his indictment on charges that he directed a rebellion, which is punishable by life imprisonment or death.