Seoul: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will be released as the prosecution decided not to appeal against a Seoul court’s release approval, multiple media outlets said Saturday. Yoon is expected to be transported to the presidential residence in central Seoul from the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, approximately 20 km south of the capital city.

According to Namibia Press Agency, the Seoul Central District Court approved the release of the president on Friday, accepting Yoon’s request to cancel his arrest made by his legal team on February 4. Yoon was apprehended in the presidential office on January 15 and was indicted under detention on January 26 as a suspected ringleader of insurrection, becoming South Korea’s first sitting president to be arrested and prosecuted.

Prosecutors brought the accusation against Yoon at 6:52 p.m. local time on January 26, but the court noted that Yoon’s arrest period expired at 9:07 a.m. local time the same day. Yoon had previously declared an emergency martial law on December 3, but it was revoked by the opposition-led National Assembly hours later.

A motion to impeach Yoon was passed in the National Assembly on December 14. Since then, the constitutional court has conducted 11 hearings on Yoon’s impeachment, with the final verdict widely expected to be delivered next week.