Former President Yoon Suk Yeol will receive his first court verdict this week over obstruction of justice and other charges related to his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024, officials said Thursday, days after a special counsel team demanded the death penalty for him on insurrection charges. The Seoul Central District Court will hold the sentencing hearing of Yoon's trial on special obstruction of public duty and other charges in connection to his failed martial law bid at 2 p.m. Friday. The court approved live broadcasts of the hearing apparently in consideration of the public's interest in the case. It marks Yoon's first sentencing of the eight cases he is standing trial on, including over charges he led an insurrection through his Dec. 3 martial law declaration in 2024. Friday's sentencing centers on charges Yoon blocked investigators from detaining him in January last year, violated the rights of nine Cabinet members who were not called to a meeting to review his martial law plan, and drafted and destroyed a revised proclamation after the decree was lifted. Last m