Prisoner of conscience Dr Nguyen Dan Que, aged 62, was released on 2 February as part of an amnesty for over 8,000 prisoners to mark Tet, the Lunar New Year. Three other men, Nguyen Dinh Huy, Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh and Catholic priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, who were also adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, were released at the same time.
