This morning (August 2), the Office of the President coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People's Court and relevant agencies to hold a press conference to announce the President's Decision on special amnesty in 2024. Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
At the press conference, Vice Chairman of the President's Office Pham Thanh Ha announced the Decision on special amnesty in 2024 of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Vice Chairman of the Office of the President Pham Thanh Ha emphasized that special amnesty is one of the legal institutions stipulated in Article 88 of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, institutionalized by the Law on Special Amnesty in 2018 (before This is the 2007 Amnesty Law).
From 2009 to present, the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has conducted 9 rounds of special amnesty on the occasion of important events and major holidays of the country, granting amnesty to more than 92,000 prisoners with a process of reform, labor, and study. Practice well and return to the community and society.
With the President's special amnesty decisions, tens of thousands of people have enjoyed the joy of clemency, soon returning to reunite with their families, ready to rebuild their lives.
“Stemming from the nation's humanitarian tradition and the leniency policy of the Party and State of Vietnam towards criminals, as well as the results of implementing amnesty work, the actual situation of sentence execution imprisonment in recent times; At the request of the Government, on July 30, 2024, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam To Lam signed Decision No. 758 on special amnesty in 2024 on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2. 2024) and 70 years of Capital Liberation Day (October 10, 2024)", said Deputy Head of the President's Office Pham Thanh Ha.
Subjects of special amnesty include: People serving a fixed-term prison sentence, people whose life sentence has been commuted to a term of imprisonment, and people whose prison sentence is temporarily suspended.
Answering the press's question about the number of foreign prisoners granted amnesty in this round, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc said that according to announcements from the authorities in Vietnam, there are currently About 643 prisoners with foreign nationality are serving sentences in detention facilities in Vietnam. After reviewing the dossiers, Vietnamese authorities will specifically notify prisoners with foreign nationality who are granted amnesty this time.
Regarding the question related to whether prisoner Chu Ngoc Anh - former Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee - is eligible for amnesty this time or not, Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung - Deputy Minister of Public Security - said: "The prisoner Chu Ngoc Anh is a prisoner serving a sentence and is treated equally as other prisoners, so it must be specifically considered whether he is eligible for amnesty or not."
