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South Korean court rejects former president Park Geun-hye’s appeal against corruption conviction
South Korea’s top court has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former president Park Geun-hye on 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.
Key points:
- Park Guen-hye was jailed in 2017 for receiving millions of dollars from major companies
- She was impeached in 2017 and later jailed, but denies any wrongdoing
- There has been a push to pardon her, along with another jailed ex-president, in the name of national unity
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…
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