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Vietnam Pardons 10,244 Prisoners but Few Dissidents
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2012
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2012, page 44
Two Vietnamese activists jailed for advocating democracy were among more than 10,000 prisoners granted amnesty by Vietnam’s government on August 25, 2011 in celebration of National Day. Nguyen Van Tinh and Tran Duc Thach had been sentenced in 2009 to three-and-a-half and three years in jail, respectively – Tinh for ...
Filed under:
Sentencing,
Pardons/Clemency,
Prisoners-International,
Political Prisoners (International).
Location:
Vietnam.
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