Policemen stand guard outside the house of South Korea's ousted leader Park Geun-hye in Seoul, South Korea, March 27, 2017. Choi Hyun-kyu/News1 via REUTERS
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court will hold a hearing on Thursday to decide whether to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye and hold her in a cell for up to 20 days while she is investigated on charges of taking bribes and abusing presidential power.
Park, 65, became South Korea's first democratically elected president to be removed from office when a constitutional court upheld her parliamentary impeachment this month.
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