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South Africa: 1. Please provide detailed information on the structure, organisation and effectiveness of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and other law enforcement bodies. Please include information on bodies or organisations with responsibility to oversee or hold the police accountable, as well as South Africa's judicial system. 2. Please provide detailed information on measures adopted by the South African authorities to combat family violence and protect victims. 3. Please provide detailed information on whether protection is available to all South Africans, regardless of their race, gender or HIV status. 4. Please provide detailed information on the level of public and private care and on-going treatment available to people with positive HIV status both in rural and urban centres, particularly in Cape Town. Please include information on recent changes in the attitude of the South African government towards HIV sufferers. 5. Please provide detailed information on the attitude of South Africans towards those with positive HIV status. Is there any evidence to suggest those sufferers are subjected to serious harm? 6. Please provide detailed information on xenophobic attacks on South Asians, particularly Indians, and Pakistanis, in South Africa. Please include information on the government's response and whether attacks, if any, have been geographically confined

25 November 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Sierra Leone: 1. What is the situation for Fulas in Sierra Leone? Are they discriminated against and/or treated as foreigners because they are regarded as Guineans rather than as Sierra Leonese? Do they face discrimination in employment, education etc and/or possible persecution from the APC government because they are not traditional supporters of the APC? Are Fulas likely to be regarded as anti-government on account of their ethnicity? 2. What is the situation for high profile human rights activists? Is it common for high profile activists to be interviewed, assaulted and or detained by the authorities? Is such a person likely to be targeted and/or harmed by APC supporters for speaking out about government policies? 3. What is the relationship between the AFRC and the APC? Following the 1997 elections, were people who opposed the AFRC arrested and detained? Do opponents of the AFRC continue to face possible harm? 4. Were there outbreaks of violence between members of political parties (SLPP and APC) during the 2007 elections? Were some people prevented from voting? 5. Would a person who is an advocate against drugs, face possible harm from drug dealers (non-State actors)? 6. What is the level of state protection provided? Does the possibility of being regarded as anti-government affect the level of protection a person may receive? 7. What are the possibilities for relocation for a person who is a Fula and/or has established a high profile in Freetown as a human rights or youth advocate?

7 September 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on the risk of harm to active pro-MDC supporters and activists in Zimbabwe. Please also comment on the situation for people who sympathise with or secretly support the MDC but do not openly express those views. 2. Please provide information on the history of the NYSTP (or National Youth Service), including when it was formed, its recruitment practices and its target group for recruitment (such as age range). Please also comment on the relative proportions of people who actually undergo service with the NYSTP, compared with people of the same age who do not. Please also comment on the extent to which young people who do not undergo service with the NYSTP face reprisals or limited work/education opportunities. 3. Please comment on the reasonableness of relocation within Zimbabwe as a means of avoiding persecution for known or suspected pro-MDC views. Are there any parts of Zimbabwe safe for such a person? Please also provide information on whether relocation to another part of Zimbabwe, such as Bulawayo, might reduce the risk of forced recruitment with the NYSTP. Please also comment on any tribal factors that might make relocation to Bulawayo non-viable for a Shona. 4. Please provide information about the MDC party, including its founding, key milestones, key leaders, party structure and details of the main MDC candidates/figures in the Harare district since 2000.

12 August 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Was an ELN guerrilla group ‘Frente Efrain Pabon Pabon' active in Santander in 2007/8? Is it active now? If so, in what parts of Colombia and who does it generally target? 2. What protection is likely to be available by the authorities from threats or attacks by this group (or, if information on the group can't be located, by the ELN generally)? 3. Are there any practical barriers to relocating within the country (to, for example, Bogota)?

19 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Israel: 1. Are there any reports of Israelis being targeted by Arabs or Palestinians for having been in the military or having worked in security roles? 2. To what extent does the Israeli state provide protection against harm of this type? 3. What are the military service obligations for a person who has previously served in the military?

5 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Lebanon: 1. Please provide brief information about Fatah. 2. Please provide updated information about the activities of Fatah-al-Islam in the Nahr El Bared area and over Lebanon in general. 3. Is there any area in Lebanon where Fatah-al-Islam does not operate? 4. How effective are the authorities in dealing with Fatah-al-Islam?

16 June 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Egypt: 1. How are identity cards issued (at what age etc)? 2. Is it conceivable that a 22 year old would have on his ID card an address at which he has not lived for over 20 years? 3. Deleted. 4. What is the documentation process for a deferral of military service? How is it policed, and by which authority? 5. What are the various security authorities in Egypt? 6. Which one is responsible for cracking down on Koranists? 7. Is there a border control data base which would identify whether someone has left the country? 8. Would police authorities know that someone is out of the country? 9. If state security wanted to interrogate someone who was overseas, would they be able to check electronically? 10. If they wanted to interrogate someone, is it conceivable that they might contact the house by telephone and then pass the message through a lawyer? 11. Deleted. 12. Deleted. 13. Is there any evidence to suggest that many ordinary Koranists (as opposed to those who are linked to Ahmed Subhy Mansour or those engaged in polemics with the Sheikhs of Al Azhar University) have been rounded up by the security police and detained indefinitely? 14. Deleted.

12 January 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Israel: 1. Please provide information on suicide bombs in 2000 to January 2002 in Netanya. 2. Deleted. 3. Please provide any information on recruitment of individuals to special army units for "chasing terrorists in neighbouring countries", how often they would be called up, and repercussions for wanting to withdraw? 4. What evidence is there of repercussions from Israeli Jewish fanatics and Arabs or the military towards someone showing some pro-Palestinian sentiment (attending rallies, expressing sentiment, and helping Arabs get jobs)? Is there evidence there would be no state protection in the event of being harmed because of political opinions held?

23 October 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Is there any information on the Zanu PF Central Intelligence Operatives (or other operatives) infiltrating such internet groups and targeting participants? 2. Is there any information on Zimbabwe not being able to afford to print passports in the past 12 months or so?

21 August 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Myanmar: 1. What is the status of the Shan and Bamar ethnic groups? 2. Is being a Buddhist consistent with being a military officer in the late 80s/early 90s? 3. Did the uprising in 1988 involve the town of May Myo and did it involve families of the military? 4. What is the SLORC? 5. Do courts, both civil and military issue written notices of charges issued to accused people and are written notices issued in respect of sentences handed down? 6. Do the military release people sentenced for long terms on the basis of being paid bribes?

19 May 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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