A total of 8018 prisoners will be freed from prison including 13 foreigners and 48 others will not be placed behind bars in honour of the communist country's National Day.
Vice minister for public security Le The Tiem said 11 of those freed had been convicted for violating national security - a charge usually filed against political dissidents.
But an amnesty request by Glitter - the disgraced 1970s pop star who was sentenced to three years in jail in March 2006 for committing obscene acts with two girls, then aged 11 and 12, in southern Vietnam - was denied as expected.
In February, Glitter received a three-month term reduction to mark the traditional Tet lunar new year, moving his official release date forward to August 2008.
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