Lawmakers cancel detention center visit after key suspects refuse to cooperate

Lawmakers Cancel Detention Center Visit After Key Suspects Refuse To Cooperate

Rep. Ahn Gyu-back, second from right, and opposition lawmakers head to the prison wing of Seoul Dongbu Detention Center in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

Rep. Ahn Gyu-back, second from proper, and opposition lawmakers head to the jail wing of Seoul Dongbu Detention Middle in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

By Anna J. Park

The Nationwide Meeting’s deliberate on-site questioning session at Seoul Dongbu Detention Middle, geared toward straight questioning key figures concerned within the Dec. 3 martial regulation declaration, was canceled after former Minister of Nationwide Protection Kim Yong-hyun refused to cooperate.

Earlier within the day, lawmakers from the Meeting’s particular committee investigating rebellion fees in opposition to the Yoon Suk Yeol administration visited the ability. As lawmakers from the ruling Folks Energy Get together (PPP) boycotted the go to, solely opposition lawmakers had been current.

A witness seat with a nameplate studying „witness Kim Yong-hyun“ had been ready within the detention middle’s primary convention room. Regardless of the setup, Kim declined to look, insisting he couldn’t attend the session as a consequence of „trial preparation.“ The previous protection chief, who was deeply concerned in planning and implementing the martial regulation, additionally refused to attend earlier parliamentary hearings held by the particular committee.

A nameplate reading 'witness Kim Yong-hyun' is placed on a desk at the main conference room of Seoul Dongbu Detention Center in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

A nameplate studying „witness Kim Yong-hyun“ is positioned on a desk on the primary convention room of Seoul Dongbu Detention Middle in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

„As committee chair, I can not assist however specific deep remorse over the witness’s disrespectful angle, which disregards public opinion and the authority of the Nationwide Meeting,“ mentioned Rep. Ahn Gyu-back, a member of the principle opposition Democratic Get together of Korea (DPK) chairing of the particular committee on the rebellion investigation. He added that the committee would file a grievance in opposition to Kim for contempt of the Meeting at subsequent week’s plenary session.

„Refusing to cooperate with the investigation is an outright rejection of the reality. If he’s so assured and honorable, why can’t he stand in entrance of the general public?“ DPK Rep. Han Byung-do added.

DPK Rep. Park Solar-won additionally denounced the PPP lawmakers of the committee for boycotting the classes.

„Their refusal to take part in probably the most essential witness investigation is actually an act of endorsing and condoning the rebellion — signaling that they’ll proceed to take action sooner or later,“ Park mentioned.

An empty witness desk with the nameplate of ex-Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun is placed on a desk at the main conference room of Seoul Dongbu Detention Center in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

An empty witness desk with the nameplate of ex-Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun is positioned on a desk on the primary convention room of Seoul Dongbu Detention Middle in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap

Within the afternoon, the particular committee lawmakers visited Seoul Detention Middle in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, the place President Yoon Suk Yeol and former Protection Intelligence Command chief Noh Sang-won are imprisoned, to carry one other questioning session. However the session was additionally scrapped when Yoon declined to cooperate.

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