
South Korea pardons disgraced former President Park Geun-hye
CNN
The South Korean government has pardoned former President Park Geun-hye, who was serving 22 years in prison for corruption, the country's Justice Ministry said on Friday.
Park Kyung-mi, a spokesperson for the Blue House -- South Korea's presidential office -- said President Moon Jae-in considered former President Park's worsening health condition when deciding to grant a special pardon.
In 2017, Park became the country's first democratically-elected leader to be forcibly removed from office after the country's Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach her over allegations of corruption and cronyism.

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