Menras, who was imprisoned for two and a half years, has just been visiting New Zealand as a guest of RAVPOC (Release All Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience). He quoted an estimate by the president of the Committee to Reform the Detention System in Saigon that the number of political prisoners still held in South Vietnam is 202,000.

Menras stressed that the best way to work for the release of political prisoners in Thieu's jails was to demand the immediate implementation of the Vietnam Peace Agreement. He pointed out that the continued imprisonment of the prisoners was a gross violation of Article 4 of the agreement which stipulates that all civilian prisoners should be released within 90 days after the agreement was signed, i.e. by the beginning of May 1973.