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RRT Case No. 1311502

21 May 2015 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): 1951 Refugee Convention - Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements - Asylum-seekers - Threats / Intimidation - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Afghanistan - Australia

RRT Case No. 1311465

13 April 2015 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Minority rights - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Australia - Sri Lanka

RRT Case No. 1400859

1 April 2015 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Generalized violence - Minority rights - Persecution based on political opinion - Threats / Intimidation - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Australia - Sri Lanka

RRT Case No. 1304427

11 October 2013 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: Australia - Sri Lanka

Sudan: 1. Is there any information to indicate that doctors or other medical practitioners in Sudan are being - or have been - targeted for harm by Sudanese authorities? 2. Please provide summary information on the Sudanese medical system, including the ability of those in need of medical treatment to obtain access to necessary services; the standard of medical treatment provided; and the standard of medical training and infrastructure in the country. 3. Please provide information on the current government in Sudan and its stance towards opposition parties and whether there is government sponsored harm towards opponents. 4. Please provide information about the Sudanese Federal Democratic party. 5. Please provide information about freedom of religion in Sudan. 6. Please provide information about the attitude of the Sudanese government towards Sufism. 7. Please provide any information about the treatment of returnees from the West and failed asylum seekers.

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

Kuwait: 1. What (a) legal penalties and (b) societal punishment apply to Kuwaiti converts from Islam to Christianity in Kuwait? 2. Are converts to evangelical forms of Christianity treated differently? 3. How are failed asylum seekers treated on return to Kuwait? 4. Are failed asylum seekers who sought protection on the grounds of their religious conversion treated differently?

28 April 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 an update on the latest situation in Zimbabwe in respect to the treatment of MDC members and supporters by the ruling ZANU PF party members and militia. 2. Please provide background information on the Border Gezi and in particular its level of recruitment activity amongst school leavers in 2007, and its level of activity now. 3. Is there any information that doctors in Zimbabwe are afraid to treat MDC supporters? 4. Is there any information to support, or to rebut, the claim that family members would be punished for the political crimes of MDC activists whom the ZANU PF and militia accuse of being traitors to Zimbabwe? 5. Is there any information to suggest that returnees to Zimbabwe from Australia would be considered as people who have sent money to the MDC to continue its anti-government activities? 6. Is there any information that the ZANU PF would make accusations that family members of MDC activists came to Australia to receive military training? 7. Please provide information on whether ZANU PF target people who have left Zimbabwe for long periods of time and they consider such people traitors

18 February 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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide brief background information on the Mahungwe ethnic group. 2. Deleted. 3. Deleted. 4. Deleted. 5. Please provide information on Zimbabwean nationals applying for asylum in South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique, including whether it is common for them to do so, and if not why not.

1 October 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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