A 56-year-old man was sentenced to eight months in prison Tuesday on charges of attacking three journalists during a violent street rally against the Constitutional Court's decision to dismiss Park Geun-hye as president.
The Seoul Central District Court convicted the defendant, identified only by his last name Lee, of striking the reporters with a ladder on March 10. They suffered injuries requiring two weeks of hospital treatment.
The victims were on duty, just after the Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of Park over a massive corruption scandal that eventually led to her arrest and indictment.
Lee was also found guilty of obstruction of duty and damaging the camera of one of the reporters. (Yonhap)