On March 19, the Steering Committee for Amnesty of the Ministry of National Defense held a Conference to implement the President's Decision on Amnesty in 2025.
Major General Nguyen Thanh Huy - Director of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of National Defense, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Amnesty of the Ministry of National Defense - chaired the conference.
Accordingly, in 2025, the State is expected to organize 2 amnesty sessions on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025); 80 years of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2025).
The conditions for this amnesty are basically the same as in 2024 but are expanded, specifically: People with prison sentences must serve at least 1/3 of the time (2024 is 1/2 of the time); 14 years for cases of life imprisonment have been reduced to prison terms (2024 is 15 years).
For prisoners with priority details such as medals, resistance medals, achievements, children of martyrs... they must serve at least 1/4 of the time (3/3 of the time in 2024).
Increase the remaining prison term to be considered and request an amnesty: The remaining prison term is over 8 years (2024 is 6 years) for those specified in Clause 1, Clause 2, Article 3 of the amnesty decision and over 10 years (2024 is 8 years) for those specified in Clause 3, Clause 4, Article 3 of the amnesty decision.
Add the subject of non-complacency such as the crime of intentionally causing injury once to many people or many times to 1 person; the crime of women's trafficking is expanded to include the subject of multiple people's trafficking of 2 or more people.
Drug crimes are basically kept the same as amnesty in 2024, but separate the regulation on prison sentences of 3 years or less with the remaining prison term being over 6 months, the remaining prison term being from 3 years to 7 years is over 1 year, then amnesty will not be granted.
Concluding the conference, Major General Nguyen Thanh Huy suggested that relevant agencies and units closely follow the conditions and standards for amnesty recipients as well as the order, procedures, and time for amnesty and organize a public, democratic amnesty trial with a high sense of responsibility, and follow the instructions of the Amnesty Advisory Council.
Comrades in the Steering Committee, according to their assigned duties and tasks, should effectively implement amnesty work in 2025, and at the same time direct comrades in the working group to coordinate with the standing agency to review and appraise the records of eligible cases in accordance with regulations, demonstrating the leniency and humanitarian policies of the Party and State.
