Ousted South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol will become the country's first sitting head of state to stand trial in a criminal case as hearings open Thursday on his bid to impose martial law. His tenth hearing in that case is scheduled for 3 pm,

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is in court for a hearing where his lawyers are contesting his arrest on a criminal charge alleging he was orchestrating a rebellion when he imposed martial law

Impeached president’s lawyers argue he had ‘no intention to paralyse the country’ by imposing martial law last December