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Zimbabwe: 1. Are there any reports of attacks on MDC members or supporters in Harare in 2002 and 2003? 2. Would a low-level male MDC supporter with family connections to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions be likely to be of interest to the ZANU-PF and in what way, were he to return to Zimbabwe now? 3. Are failed asylum seekers known to be mistreated by authorities on return to Zimbabwe?

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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide current information of the treatment of white Christians in Harare, and especially in Dinolli, and information on whether there has been a change in the treatment between 2000 and the present. 2. Deleted. 3. Please provide information on which organisation administers the refugee visa regime in South Africa, and in particular in Durban. Can you provide any information on what the procedure is for applying for refugee status in South Africa?

28 October 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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on whether there is a distinction between the Green Bombers and the Zimbabwe National Youth Service, and if there is, what is the distinction. 2. Is there evidence that young men are being intimidated to join the Green Bombers in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and if so what information is there on the means used to intimidate? In particular, please provide information on whether there have been abductions where young men have been forced to join the Green Bombers militia. 3. Is there information on whether ZANU-PF supporters are giving potential recruits green T-shirts and forcing the recipients to wear them? 4. Is there information regarding whether the ZANU-PF have trucks and how such trucks would be marked or identified as ZANU-PF trucks? 5. Please provide information on whether the Green Bombers terrorise and brutalise people. 6. Is there information about ZANU-PF supporters forcing people to buy ZANU-PF cards? If so, please provide details on how and why this occurs. 7. Is there information available to suggest that young men between the ages of 17-25 are targeted as the prime age for recruitment to the ZANU-PF party? Is there a particular profile of person that is of interest to the ZANU-PF party insofar as potential recruitment is concerned? 8. Is there information that with the elections coming up in 2011 the ZANU-PF are looking to recruit more people? 9. Please provide information regarding whether much has changed despite the power sharing government in Zimbabwe. Please provide information on what has changed. 10. Is there information on whether the police are connected to the ZANU-PF party? 11. Deleted. 12. What information is there on "coloured" persons in Zimbabwe? In particular, what does the reference to "coloured" suggest in this context? 13. What information is there on whether coloured people are being targeted for ill-treatment or for recruitment to the ZANU-PF for reason of their ethnicity? 14. Would it be expected that a coloured Zimbabwean in their twenties would have experienced difficulty obtaining a passport in Zimbabwe in 2002?

19 July 2010 | 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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide updated information on current level of politically related violence, specifically against MDC supporters, or people suspected to be MDC supporters. I am particularly interested in the situation in Harare and Bulowayo.

1 July 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide an update of the situation for suspected Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters. 2. Please provide an update of the situation for suspected foreign spies.3. Please provide an update of the situation for suspected foreign journalists. 4. Is it likely that someone arrested by the Zimbabwean police on suspicion of being one or all of the above would be released the following day? 5. What is the ‘Public Order and Security Act'? Which arm of government is responsible for administering this Act? 6. Please provide an update on the level of state protection available to suspected opposition supporters.

1 July 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide up-to-date information on the situation following the recent elections in Zimbabwe.

11 April 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

RRT Case No. 071637813

3 December 2007 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Persecution based on political opinion - Security situation - State protection - Witnesses | Countries: Australia - Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Can you provide an update on the situation in Zimbabwe particularly in respect to the authorities' treatment of persons seen to be in opposition to them but also treatment of the general public at large?

19 May 2005 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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