HANOI, Aug 28, 2015 (AFP) - Vietnam on Friday said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country’s second biggest-ever amnesty.
The detainees will be released in batches starting from Monday ahead of the communist nation’s 70th National Day anniversary, which falls on September 2.
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