South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked out of a detention centre on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court decision to cancel the impeached leader's arrest warrant on insurrection charges.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who lawmakers voted to impeach, was released from detention Saturday after spending nearly two months in custody under a criminal probe for his martial law declaration.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison Saturday after a court ruled his detention over insurrection charges was invalid.  The conservative president faces charges

South Korean prosecutors will pursue President Yoon Suk Yeol's conviction for insurrection despite a court decision ordering the release of the impeached leader from prison, the head of the prosecutors' office said on Monday.

A South Korean court has decided to release President Yoon Suk Yeol from prison, after he was impeached and arrested in connection with his brief martial law declaration in December, local broadcaster YTN reported Friday.

"The fear and terror that South Korea's decades-long, hard-won achievements might suddenly collapse were overwhelming." Soon after Yoon's announcement, the opposition's Democratic Party leader hosted a live stream urging people to assemble in protest outside the National Assembly building in central Seoul.

Members of the police stand guard as supporters of South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stand outside the Seoul detention center after the court decided to release him, in Uiwang, South Korea,

South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison, a day after a Seoul court canceled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being detained.

South Korea is ramping up security ahead of the Constitutional Courts highly anticipated ruling on whether to reinstate or remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. With large-scale protests expected from both