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Sri Lanka: Treatment of Opposition Groups, Critics, and Persons with Certain LTTE Links

June 2013 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Country Profiles

Nepal: 1. What is the relationship between Maoists and splinter groups in the Terai, particularly in the Butwal area? If an individual was an active member of the Maoists main group, would this protect you from recruitment/threats by smaller splinter groups? 2. Who are the most active groups in Butwal, particularly prior to August 2008 and now? When did these groups start? 3. Please provide a map of the area.

13 June 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Iraq: 1. Did the communist party have strong support from workers in the tailoring business/textile industry (particularly in the city of Hilla)? 2. Was the textile industry in Hilla the crucible of early support for the Communist Party in Iraq? 3. Were tailors/textile workers in Hilla actively recruited by the communist party?

6 June 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

South Korea: 1. Is an individual able to obtain South Korean citizenship if their mother was not a South Korean citizen or ethnically South Korean? 2. Would a person with a non-South Korean parent be denied any rights in South Korea or be subject to discrimination? 3. Please give a brief summary of any strikes or protests known to have occurred in South Korea in June 2009 (dates, places, numbers involved, issue etc.).

6 February 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

China: 1. Can you provide translations of information about the criminal offence of assaulting a police officer and provision for minors? 2. Is there any information suggesting that members of the Local Church do not celebrate Christmas or Easter? 3. Do members of the Local Church believe in and study the Old Testament? 4. Are there any reports of overseas activists' computers being hacked and wiped by Chinese authorities? 5. Are there any reports or information which suggests that the government undertook a campaign of checking computers of people with police records due to the threat of the China Jasmine Revolution? 6. Is there any information about what information was publicly available in China in relation to the Jasmine Revolution (events in China) and when this ceased to be available?

18 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ukraine: 1. Please provide information about the 'Common Cause' movement in Ukraine, including details of its leaders, the time of its foundation, and its activities. 2. Are people actively involved in this movement subject to official harassment, such as being intimidated and threatened with criminal charges?

12 January 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Nepal: 1. Is there any available information indicating how active the RPP is currently? 2. Is there any available information indicating how active the RPP is in Myagdi? 3. Is there any available information as to whether the Maoists or the YCL are targeting RPP members or monarchists, and if so whether there are reports of RPP members being targeted in Myagdi? If there are reports, are they targeting ordinary members? 4. If RPP members are being targeted in Myagdi, are they being targeted in Kathmandu? 5. If RPP members are being targeted, what is the attitude of police and security forces to reports of incidents?

20 May 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Myanmar: 1. Please provide background information on the ruling party in Myanmar and the political situation in Myanmar situation in general and in particular in respect to the treatment of supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD). 2. Please provide information on whether there are reports on political/student uprisings in 1988. 3. Deleted. 4. Deleted. 5. Please provide information on the claim that monks participated in political activities in Myanmar in September 2007. 6. Is there information that NLD supporters supported the monks by raising funds for them? 7. Is there any information that the monks were arrested and that they were not fed but relied on raised funds for food? 8. Is there any information that the authorities identified political activists through observing those who provided support and funds to the monks while the monks were imprisoned? 9. Is there any information on a petition made by the police to the chairman of the Seaman Employment Control Division demanding that seaman should not get involved in politics? Is there any information on whether and if so how that Division implemented such a petition? 10. Is there any information on the Seaman Employment Control Division requiring the lodgement of a security such as a sum of 12,000,000 kyat, or the signing over of a person's house, as part of a condition of employment? 11. Is there information on a protest in June 2009 involving a protest against the government asking for free elections? Is there any information about persons who attended that march being imprisoned in Insein jail? 12. Please provide general information about the Myanmar police authorities including the level of partisanship or political affiliations. 13. Is there information about the Myanmar police interrogating the spouses of political supporters? 14. Please provide information on what legal grounds, if any, the authorities in Myanmar act in arresting and detaining supporters of the political opposition or NLD. 15. Please provide information on how long political detainees are held in prison in Myanmar and the conditions under which they are held. Is there information on whether political detainees are permitted visits from family? 16. Please provide information on the treatment of failed asylum seekers to Myanmar.

2 March 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on a large MDC rally in Chitungwiza in January or June 2008, in which 50 ZANU-PF men came and reportedly forced people into a truck. 2. Please comment on the ease with which a person with an MDC profile and who had been charged with an offence for MDC involvement would be able to obtain visas to travel freely between Zimbabwe and South Africa. 3. Please comment on whether a person who was the subject of a warrant would experience problems departing Zimbabwe. 4. Please comment on any information relating to MDC sponsorship of students to study abroad, including payment of their tuition fees. 5. Please provide information in relation to the 2008 elections, including the timing and outcomes. Please also provide information on the 2008 MDC candidates in the areas near Westgate, Harare, and Borrowdale, Harare.

5 January 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Belarus: 1. Please provide a brief overview of the political situation in Belarus. 2. Please provide information on how the Lukashenko regime deals with opposition and criticism and whether there is evidence of arrests, torture, beatings, and other repercussions such as expulsion from university or criminal framing of opposition activists. 3. Please provide information on the March of Freedom 2, including the organisers, location, aim, reaction of authorities etc. 4. Please provide similar information on the October Square protests in 2006. 5. Please provide evidence on an organisation called Spring. 6. Could you confirm that the General Public Prosecutor is Grigory Alekseevich. 7. Is there any information on returnee asylum seekers to Belarus?

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

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