HANOI, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security is proposing sentence remissions for some 24,826 prisoners on the occasion of the country's national Independence Day.
Nguyen Ngoc Bang, head of the ministry's General Department of Police for Enforcement of Criminal Sentences and Judicial Assistance, told the state-run news agency VNA that among the figure, a total of 2,092 inmates are proposed to reduce their remaining sentences, 11 from life sentence to 20-year imprisonment and 117 from life sentence to 30-year imprisonment.
Meanwhile, as many as 22,606 prisoners are supposed to enjoy reducing a term of imprisonment, said VNA.
Currently, all prisons and detention centers nationwide have completed procedures on sentence remissions for inmates and transferred such documents to provincial People's Courts to review and decide.
Vietnam is celebrating the 71st anniversary of National Day, which falls on Sept. 2 annually.
