Vietnam to release over 17,000 prisoners
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Vietnam grants amnesty to more than 17,000 prisoners. Nguyen Minh Triet, the Vietnamese President, had signed amnesty for over 17,000 prisoners. The amnesty to the prisoners is to mark the Vietnam’s National Day which is to be celebrated on September 02, 2010.
The amnesty was looked at as a goodwill gesture by Vietnam, and the release of the prisoners would begin from Sunday, August 29, 2010, couple of days before the National Day.
About a 20 of them jailed with national security crime charges, some of them political prisoners, majority prisoned for civil offences and none with hi-profile pro democracy dissidents that featured in the list of to-be-released prisoners.
Vietnam celebrates the National Day on September 2 and it’s a symbol of the 1945 Revolution and the Vietnam National Day.
It was on September 02, 1945, that President Ho Chi Minh solemnly read the Declaration of Independence of the country; proclaiming birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
