China News Service, December 3, according to Korean media reports, South Korean prosecutors filed a protest to the court on the first-instance verdict of the former South Korean President Chun Dou-hwan suspected of harming the deceased’s reputation on the 3rd.
Earlier, on November 30, South Korea’s Gwangju District Court sentenced Chun Doo-hwan in the first instance of suspected damage to the deceased’s reputation and sentenced him to 8 months’ imprisonment with a suspended sentence of 2 years.
The prosecution expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict, and submitted an appeal to the court on December 3, citing that the sentence was too light.
Chun Doo-hwan has not yet stated whether to appeal.
According to previous reports, South Korean prosecutors have asked the court to sentence Chun Douhuan to 1 year and 6 months in prison.
The penalty for the crime of damage to the deceased’s reputation is two years’ imprisonment or imprisonment, and a fine of less than 5 million won.
The 89-year-old Chun Doo-hwan was re-elected as the 11th and 12th president of South Korea.
In 1996, he was prosecuted on suspicion of "military rebellion" and was sentenced to death in the first instance, and later commuted to life imprisonment.
In December 1997, Chun Doo-hwan received an amnesty from President-elect Kim Dae-jung and was released in early 1998.
In July 2013, Quan Dou-hwan was ransacked and repaid the stolen money.
Chun Doo-hwan was filed a non-detention lawsuit on May 3, 2018 for allegedly harming the deceased’s reputation in his memoirs published in 2017.