South Korea grants amnesty to disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hye who was in prison for bribery, embezzlement and other offences in connection with a corruption scandal
The disgraced former president was on a list of people receiving special amnesty, and"pardon was granted to heal social conflicts and restore the local community," says Justice Minister Park Beom-kye.
South Korea has pardoned former president Park Geun-hye, who is imprisoned over corruption charges, in a dramatic reprieve for the former leader who was jailed for 20 years in a sprawling corruption scandal. Park became South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office when, in 2017, the Constitutional Court upheld a Parliament vote to impeach her over a scandal that also landed the heads of two conglomerates in jail.
In January, South Korea's top court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for 69-years-old Park on the graft charges that led to her downfall, bringing an end to the legal process and for the first time raising the possibility of a pardon.
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