4,000 prisoners in Vietnam eligible for amnesty this year

Some 4,000 prisoners in Vietnam are eligible for being released before their terms end this year, a local amnesty advisory council meeting was heard Sunday.

Since 2009, some months after Vietnam's Law on Special Amnesty took effect, the country has conducted amnesty six times, releasing 81,795 inmates ahead their imprisonment terms, as well as 919 convicts who had yet to live behind bars.

In the latest amnesty, conducted in 2015, some 18,500 inmates were released from prison ahead their terms, of whom 0.4 percent relapsed into crime, according to statistics from local courts. Endit