Seoul: Senior prosecutors from across the country held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the next steps in President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law case, officials said, as the arrested president's detention period nears its end.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the meeting was presided over by Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung and took place a day after a Seoul court rejected the prosecution's request to extend Yoon's arrest for the second time. Prosecutors had sought to question Yoon themselves if the request was granted.

Prosecutors now face the choice of indicting Yoon or releasing him without having had an opportunity to directly question him. By law, a suspect must be released if not indicted within the detention period. Yoon's detention is set to end on Monday after he was detained on Jan. 15 by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO). He was formally arrested on Jan. 19.

The CIO, which led the investigation into Yoon's short-lived imposition of martial law, transferred the case to the prosecution last week as the agency does not have a legal mandate to indict a president.