Top Dissidents to Be Released in Amnesty
From Times Wire Reports
Vietnam said it would release from prison the country’s best-known dissident, Doan Viet Hoat, and another leading democracy activist in a sweeping amnesty for 5,219 prisoners. Vietnamese official Nguyen Canh Dinh told a Hanoi news conference that Hoat, a writer and journalist, and Nguyen Dan Que would be freed in the amnesty coinciding with the country’s anniversary of independence. The anniversary falls on Sept. 2, although Dinh did not say when the two men--or the other prisoners--would be released.
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