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Ethiopia: 1. What is the situation currently for ELF supporters in Ethiopia? 2. Are Eritreans currently subject to societal or systemic discrimination in Ethiopia? 3. Can you provide any information about Karchele prison?

30 April 2012 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Cambodia: 1. Please provide information relating to the fall of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, as well as any current activity of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. 2. Please provide information in relation to the prisons Tuol Sleng and Prey Sar. 3. Please provide information relating to Ieng Sary and Son Sen. 4. Please provide information relating to the government's treatment of former child soldiers of the Khmer Rouge

7 October 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 relating to the ZPS generally, particularly in relation to its politicisation and alignment with the ZANU-PF regime. 2. Please provide information relating to treatment of MDC prisoners within the ZPS.

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

Bahrain: 1. Please provide information about a 1994 petition calling for nullification of state security law, reinstatement of the 1973 constitution and the return of the dissolved elected parliament? 2. Please provide information about the arrest of political activists around 1996, in particular whether an activist would have been tried and sentenced if he was in detention for three years? 3. Please provide any information about continued harassment by the authorities today, of those who have been detained in the past? 4. Please provide information on any arrest or detention of Bahrainis returning from overseas travel on the basis of being involved in terrorist plots or training against the Sunni elite?

3 June 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Ethiopia: 1. Please provide information outlining the major policies of the Kinijit Party in their 2005 election campaign. 2. Please advise what positions were held by party officials Dr Berhanu Nega, Hailu Shawel, Burtukan Mideksa and Ledutu Ayallu. Please provide any relevant information concerning their profile prior to the 2005 election. 3. Please provide information concerning the 2005 election results, including the number of seats won by parties. 4. Please advise if there is a record of post-election demonstrations and if so where were these primarily held? 5. The military camp at Dedesa was known to be used to house the overflow of arrested protesters in 2005. Over what period of time did the arrests of protestors occur? 6. Are there reports of any major prison break-outs or escapes from Dedesa at the end of 2005? Are there any reports of executions or other deaths of protesters imprisoned there and if so, how many? 7. Are there any reports that failed asylum seekers who return to Ethiopia are subject to adverse treatment on their return? 8. Deleted.

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

China: 1. Is there a type of punishment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) called 'rigorous restraint' and if so, what is it? 2. Please provide details of the First Brigade of Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City as at 30 April 2006 or thereabouts. 3. Are family members denied visiting rights if a detainee breaches the regulations and the discipline of the labour camp, in particular, if the breach was practising Falun Gong? 4. How many Falun Gong members have been detained / sentenced / killed in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1999?

22 February 2008 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

China: 1. Please provide information on the treatment of ordinary member of the underground Catholic churches in Henan Province. 2. Is it customary for the authorities to issue a Certificate of Release or a Notice of Prisoner's Release upon Completion of His Sentence once a prisoner has been released? 3. Is there a prison called Xin Yang in the outskirts of Luo He City?

23 February 2007 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

RRT Case No. 060819216

22 December 2006 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law

Vietnam: 1. Please provide details about NUFLVN e.g. when it was formed, its aims and objectives, its leaders, its activities, and the Vietnamese Government's attitude towards NUFLVN and treatment of its members - especially around 1981/82, 1996, and more recently. 2. Was there a "political gaol" called Phan Dang Luu in Ho Chi Minh in 1982? If so, provide any details about it e.g. location and size. 3. Did the Vietnamese authorities not allow people with "bad records" to work in the 1980s? 4. Was non-government employment available at that time for someone who had 14 years of education and a qualification in accounting? 5. Anything else of relevance

4 September 2006 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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