SEOUL: According to a prison official on Monday, Yoon Suk Yeol, the impeached president of South Korea, had his mug shot taken and a physical examination before spending his first night in custody as a criminal suspect.
Yoon became the first current South Korean head of state to be jailed in a criminal investigation on insurrection charges following his disastrous declaration of martial law when he was arrested in a dawn raid last week.
Due to worries that he would destroy evidence, a court on Sunday authorized his official arrest warrant, turning Yoon from a temporary detainee into a criminal suspect who would be charged and put on trial.
According to Shin Yong-hae, commissioner general of the Korea Correctional Correctional Facility, Yoon was assigned a 12-square-meter (129-square-foot) cell at Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang on Sunday.
