Jeon Kwang-hoon, a conservative activist pastor, solutions reporters’ questions earlier than attending his arrest warrant listening to on the Seoul Western District Court docket in western Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap
Jeon Kwang-hoon, a conservative activist pastor, appeared at a Seoul courtroom Tuesday to attend a listening to on his potential arrest over his alleged involvement in final yr’s courthouse riot dedicated by supporters of former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Jeon is accused of being behind pro-Yoon protesters’ violence on the Seoul Western District Court docket on Jan. 19 final yr, following the courtroom’s resolution to increase Yoon’s detention over his martial legislation declaration in December 2024.
The pastor at Seoul’s Sarang Jeil Church, who is thought for main quite a few rallies in help of Yoon after the martial legislation, reportedly urged the rally members to train their proper of resistance. As of final month, a complete of 141 individuals had been indicted for his or her involvement within the riot.
Jeon once more denied all expenses whereas arriving on the similar courtroom shortly earlier than 10 a.m.
“A right-wing president has by no means picked a battle or made an accusation in opposition to me. However after a left-wing president took workplace, they’re nervously attempting to arrest me,” he advised reporters in entrance of the courtroom.
“I believe (the police) utilized for the arrest warrant on the path of the workplace of the presidential secretary for civil affairs,” the pastor stated. He shall be despatched to a police detention facility to await the courtroom’s resolution, which is predicted to be launched Tuesday evening on the earliest.
The pastor was beforehand arrested twice in 2017 and 2020 on expenses of unlawful election campaigning.
