**ISTANBUL**
South Korea’s acting Justice Minister Kim Seok-woo said Wednesday he deemed a court's decision to release impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from prison "unjust," Yonhap News reported.
Yoon was released on Saturday from the detention center where he had been held since mid-January over his botched martial law attempt in December, after a Seoul court declared his detention invalid.
"I think the court's verdict needs to be rectified because it was unjust," Kim Seok-woo said.
Yoon was released after Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung decided to not appeal the Seoul Central District Court's decision to approve Yoon's request to annul his arrest, noting that his indictment came just hours after the detention period had ended.
The acting minister said that the prosecution “did not immediately appeal the decision because doing so would have likely contained unconstitutional elements."
The court seems to have determined that Yoon had to be released prior to his indictment, Kim Seok-woo said, promising to contest the matter in Yoon's main criminal trial.
Despite his release, Yoon still has to stand trial on charges of leading an insurrection and is awaiting the verdict of the Constitutional Court on whether to uphold or dismiss his impeachment.
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