Appeals court cuts ex-PM’s sentence to 15 years, affirms insurrection role

“Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday after an appeals court overturned a lower court’s ruling but still found him guilty of playing a key role in an insurrection linked to former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s imposition of martial law. Judges at the Seoul High Court quashed the original 23-year sentence and reduced it to 15 years, while issuing a strongly worded condemnation that any act aimed at extinguishing the Constitution’s functions can “never be tolerated under any circumstances.”

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