Vietnam: Superintendents of prisons shall grant certificates of pardon to those having served their sentences in prisons

According to Article 18 of the Law on Pardon 2018 of Vietnam, the Office of the State President shall take charge and cooperate with relevant agencies in announcing pardon decisions. The pardon decision shall be publicized and announced on the mass media. The pardon decision and list of pardon recipients shall be posted up at prisons, detention centers where the pardon recipients have served their sentences and sent to the People’s Committee of commune or military unit where they are going to reside or serve; if a pardon recipient has benefited an imprisonment suspension, the People’s Committee of commune or military unit in charge shall be notified in writing.

- Superintendents of prisons, detention centers, the Head of criminal enforcement agency of District Public Security, the Head of criminal enforcement agency of military zone, the Chief Judge of Provincial People’s Court and the Chief Judge of Military Court of military zone shall announce and grant the pardon decision to pardon recipients.

- Superintendents of prisons, detention centers affiliated to the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Defense; superintendents of detention centers affiliated to military zone shall grant certificates of pardon to those having served their sentences in prisons, detention centers that are offered pardon.

- The Head of criminal enforcement agency of Provincial Public Security shall grant certificates of pardon to those having served their sentences in detention centers of Provincial Public Security, detention centers of District Public Security who are offered pardon.

- The Head of the criminal enforcement agency of military zone shall grant certificates of pardon to those having served their sentences in detention centers of military zone that are offered pardon.

- The Chief Judge of People’s Court of Province, the Chief Judge of Military Court of military zone shall grant certificates of pardon to those having benefited imprisonment suspension that are offered pardon.

Note: Holders of certificates of pardon shall send copies of these certificates to the National Center for Judicial Records, the Court that issued the judgment enforcement decision, the agency in charge of enforcement of additional penalties, the civil enforcement agency which issued the certification of the judgment debtor’s incapacity to satisfy the judgment debt, the criminal enforcement agency affiliated to District Public Security, the People’s Committee of commune, military unit where the pardon recipient is going to reside or serve, and the unit that receives the temporarily released person.

View more details at the Law on Pardon 2018 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2019.

Ty Na

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