韩国首尔电——韩国一名特别检察官于周四要求对被罢免的前总统尹锡悦判处死刑，此前上诉法院将对他在2024年12月短暂实施戒严而面临的叛乱指控作出裁决。
KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean special prosecutor on Thursday demanded the death penalty for ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, ahead of an appeals court verdict on rebellion charges over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
首尔高等法院尚未确定对尹锡悦的上诉宣判日期。首尔中央地方法院于2月判处他无期徒刑，法院认定他非法动员军队和警察占领立法机构、逮捕政治对手，并建立了一个“相当长时间”的无限制统治。由特别检察官赵恩锡领导的调查人员也对该裁决提出了上诉，并主张尹锡悦的行为对国家的民主构成了严重威胁，因此理应判处死刑。不过，执行死刑的可能性不大。自1997年以来，韩国没有执行过任何死刑，在废除死刑的呼声出现后，实际上维持了死刑缓期执行的状态。
The Seoul High Court has yet to set a date for a verdict on Yoon’s appeal of a life sentence handed down in February by the Seoul Central District Court. The court found that he illegally mobilized troops and police to seize the legislature, arrest political opponents and establish unchecked rule for a “considerable time.”Investigators led by Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-suk also appealed the ruling, arguing Yoon deserves the death penalty because his actions posed a grave threat to the country’s democracy. An execution would be unlikely. South Korea has not executed anyone since 1997, effectively maintaining a moratorium on capital punishment following calls for its abolition.
在高等法院的听证会上，赵恩锡的团队表示，只有死刑才能让尹锡悦为策划叛乱这样严重的罪行承担全部责任，而且该国长期的暂停执行死刑不应妨碍法院判处死刑。
During the hearing at the high court, Cho’s team said only the death penalty could fully hold Yoon accountable for a crime as serious as orchestrating a rebellion and that the country’s long-standing pause on executions should not prevent courts from imposing death sentences.
尹锡悦的法律团队对记者表示，检察官们在重复一种“缺乏证据和法律逻辑”的论点，并声称尹锡悦实施戒严是为了提高公众对他们所谓的由反对党主导的立法机构企图瘫痪国家事务行为的认识。辩护团队还表示，尹锡悦并无意造成伤害或建立威权统治。
Yoon’s legal team told reporters that prosecutors were repeating an argument “devoid of evidence and legal logic” and claimed that Yoon’s martial law was intended to raise public awareness about what he called attempts by the opposition-led legislature to paralyze state affairs. It said Yoon had no intention of causing harm or establishing authoritarian rule.
尹锡悦的戒严令于2024年12月3日深夜宣布，仅持续了数小时，直到法定人数的议员冲破重兵把守的士兵和警察在国会的封锁并投票推翻了该令，迫使他的内阁取消了这一措施。
Yoon’s martial law decree, announced late at night on Dec. 3, 2024, lasted only hours until a quorum of lawmakers broke through a blockade of heavily armed soldiers and police at the National Assembly and voted to overturn it, forcing his Cabinet to lift the measure.
尹锡悦于2024年12月14日被自由派主导的立法机构弹劾停职，并于2025年4月被宪法法院正式罢免。他于2025年7月再次被捕，并因戒严闹剧和其他指控面临多项刑事审判，其中叛乱罪的惩罚最重。
Yoon was suspended from office on Dec. 14, 2024, after being impeached by the liberal-led legislature and was formally removed by the Constitutional Court in April 2025. He was re-arrested in July 2025 and has faced multiple criminal trials over the martial law debacle and other allegations, with the rebellion charge carrying the heaviest punishment.
除了对叛乱罪的无期徒刑提出上诉外，尹锡悦还对另一起案件中被判处的30年监禁提出了上诉。在该案中，他被指控下令在2024年进行无人机飞行，以蓄意加剧与朝鲜的紧张局势，并为国内戒严制造借口。尹锡悦的律师表示，无人机飞行是对朝鲜向韩国放飞数千个载有垃圾的气球的回应。
In addition to appealing his life sentence for rebellion, Yoon has also appealed a 30-year prison term in a case accusing him of ordering drone flights in 2024 to deliberately heighten tensions with North Korea and create a pretext for martial law at home. Yoon’s lawyers said the drone flights were a response to North Korea flying thousands of trash-carrying balloons into the South .