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Zimbabwe: Information on whether homosexuals are openly at risk of police brutality and arbitrary arrest? What is the attitude of the Zimbabwean Government/Agencies of the State (Police etc) towards those who are homosexual?

5 September 2012 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Is/was there a ZANU-PF military campsite at Braeside, Harare? 2. Deleted. 3. Does the government of Zimbabwe discriminate against the Seventh Day Adventist Church and/or its members?

24 November 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

South Africa: Treatment of Zimbabwean asylum seekers/immigrants and availability of police protection

10 October 2011 | Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide the latest material update on the situation in Zimbabwe for members of the MDC and their treatment by ZANU PF and the police and military. 2. Is there information on any relevant activities of the MDC in Mashonaland West and in particular the district of Chinhoyi? Are you able to confirm what position J. Karemba holds with the MDC in that office? 3. Please provide some background information on the split that occurred in the MDC in 2005 resulting in the MDC-T and the MDC-M? Please provide information on any significant evolution and the present status of the split.

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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information about "kuripa ngozi" (or virgin pledging) - the customary practice of offering a young girl or grown women as compensatory payment in inter-family disputes as well as in the appeasement of avenging deceased spirits. Is it widespread? 2. Is "kuripa ngozi" referred to in Zimbabwe's Domestic Violence Act? Please provide the relevant clauses or section. 3. Is there information that the police do not uphold the laws relating to domestic violence? 4. At what age is a woman considered an adult in Zimbabwe? 5. At what age can a woman marry in Zimbabwe? 6. Deleted. 7. Deleted

16 September 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. What is the current status of the joint MDC-ZANU-PF coalition government? 2. Has the treatment of MDC members changed in 2009? Are members liable to arrest, detention or other harassment as a result of their activities? 3. Do the police investigate complaints of sexual assault or rape? 4. What is the regime's attitude towards failed asylum seekers from Australia or other Western countries?

5 January 2010 | 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

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