Former Presidents’ Sentences Upheld

South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a sentence of life in prison for former President Chun Doo Hwan for mutiny, treason and bribery, court officials said. The court also upheld a 17-year sentence for his successor, Roh Tae Woo, for similar convictions. Prosecutors had challenged as too lenient an appeals court decision in December to commute Chun’s death sentence to life imprisonment and to reduce Roh’s prison term from 22 1/2 years to 17. Chun was president from 1980 to 1988, and Roh succeeded him, stepping down in 1993.