More than 10,000 inmates granted amnesty

This was announced on August 29 at a press conference about the President’s amnesty decision.

 Speaking at the conference held by the Presidential Office, the Ministries of Public Security and Foreign Affairs, and the Supreme People’s Court, Vice Head of the Presidential Office Giang Son emphasized that the amnesty shows the Party and State’s leniency and the country’s humane tradition for inmates, which encourages them to rehabilitate and become useful citizens.

It also shows the convicts’ efforts to change their lives and comply with the prisons’ rules and regulations, Son said, adding that the amnesty was decided in a strict, democratic, and transparent manner.

There has been no discrimination against or unequal treatment of any inmates, he stressed.

The Government has asked the Ministry of Public Security and provincial and municipal People’s Committees to create favourable conditions for the released inmates to re-integrate in the community.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Quy Vuong, the Deputy Minister of Public Security, said 11 of the inmates who will be granted amnesty this year are foreigners (four Chinese, three Lao, one American, one Indian, one Canadian, and one Australian).

Five of the prisoners were convicted of infringements on national security and 111 were charged with position-related crimes, he said.

(VOV)

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