Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, who was jailed for graft, has been granted an unexpected pardon by her successor.
A conservative, Park served as president from 2013 until 2017 when she was impeached and removed from office. She was handed a 25-year prison sentence in 2018 for a range of offences including corruption and abuse of power. The sentence was later reduced to 22 years.
A statement issued by South Korea’s justice ministry on Friday on behalf of Moon Jae-in, the leftwing president, said that the pardon had been issued “from the perspective of national reconciliation”.
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