The organization will release the second batch of prisoners in 2025 on September 1.

Announcement ofthe President 's amnesty decision on August 30, 2025. Illustrative photo

According to the guidelines, subjects considered for amnesty include: people sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment that has been reduced to fixed-term imprisonment, who are serving their prison sentences in prisons or detention camps (prisoners); people whose prison sentences are temporarily suspended.

Regarding the conditions for being proposed for amnesty, according to the provisions of Point c, Point e, Clause 1, Article 18 of Decree No. 118/2024/ND-CP dated September 30, 2024 of the Government detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Enforcement of Criminal Judgments, the classification of serving a prison sentence in the second quarter is on the last day of May.

Therefore, by the time the prisons and detention camps meet to consider and propose amnesty, prisoners must have had enough quarters to be classified as fair or good for each sentence level and the following period from June 1 to the date the Council meets to consider and propose amnesty of the prisons and detention camps must be commented on and evaluated as having served their prison sentences as fair or good.

Time served in prison is the time spent in detention, temporary detention, serving a prison sentence in a prison or temporary detention camp, not including the time spent on bail, deferred, temporarily suspended, and the time spent reducing the prison sentence.

The time spent under compulsory medical treatment during the investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of the sentence is also counted towards the time spent serving the prison sentence.

The time of reduction of the prison sentence is calculated to be deducted from the remaining prison sentence.

For example: Nguyen Van A was sentenced to 12 years in prison, arrested on August 31, 2016, as of August 31, 2025, Nguyen Van A has actually served 9 years, has had his prison sentence reduced 3 times, a total of 2 years, then the remaining prison sentence is 1 year.

Regarding the implementation time, the Guide clearly states that from July 20, 2025 to August 2, 2025, interdisciplinary appraisal teams will directly visit units and localities to inspect and appraise dossiers and lists of proposed amnesty.

From July 24, 2025 to August 8, 2025, the Standing Committee of the Amnesty Advisory Council will compile documents and send the list to members of the Amnesty Advisory Council for research and appraisal.

From August 8, 2025 to August 18, 2025, the Standing Committee of the Amnesty Advisory Council and the Supreme People's Court will synthesize the opinions of the members of the Amnesty Advisory Council and prepare documents, a list of people eligible for amnesty, and a list of people ineligible for amnesty to submit to the Advisory Council for review.

From August 24, 2025 to August 26, 2025, the Amnesty Advisory Council will meet to review the amnesty list.

From August 27, 2025 to August 28, 2025, the Standing Committee of the Amnesty Advisory Council will synthesize and complete the amnesty list and submit it to the President for decision.

Hold a press conference to announce the President's amnesty decision on August 30, 2025.

The organization releases people who are granted amnesty according to the President's Decision on September 1, 2025.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/phap-luat/202507/to-chuc-tha-nguoi-duoc-dac-xa-dot-2-nam-2025-vao-ngay-19-d0f064d/