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Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on whether it is necessary to have a ZANU PF card to access health, food, and university education?

9 December 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

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ), including information relating to its relationship to the government and the ZANU-PF party.

23 December 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Is there any information about Pastor Tom Deuschle and the Celebration Ministries International church which would suggest he and his church are either supporters or critics of the government of Zimbabwe?

10 December 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on the area of Kamoto, Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, in particular on whether it has been regarded as an MDC stronghold. 2. Is there information on attacks there on MDC supporters by ZANU PF in 2002/2003 or any recent attacks? 3. Deleted. 4. Deleted. 5. Is there any information on youth base camps around 2002 in that region, where they were located, and what took place at these camps? 6. What is the latest information on whether elections will take place in 2011?

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

Zimbabwe: 1. Is there information on rape of women at Zanu-PF meetings or in similar political contexts? What has been the police reaction? 2. Is there any more recent information on returnees (including failed asylum seekers) to Zimbabwe? 3. Is there any very recent specific information on Zanu-PF intimidation of low profile MDC supporters in the area of Chitungwiza (30 kilometres from Harare) or Harare itself?

20 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 regarding how a person might be treated where they are related to and living with a person accused of black market currency crimes, including whether they would be detained and then placed under de facto house arrest indefinitely. Is such an accused crime likely to result in such an extreme response? Would detention also result in the person being forced to confess to being pro-MDC? 2. Please provide details of the relevant Ministers whose children are studying in Australia. 3. Please provide details of any pro-MDC rallies or events attended by Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter. Please also comment on the likelihood of a person facing persecution for their attendance at such an event. 4. Please provide information relating to the risk of harm faced by a person upon his return simply due to being a returnee from Australia.

9 August 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide any information about the location of the township of Macheke, and its distance to Harare, and whether there is any profile of political allegiances in that area which would suggest the area was a ZANU-PF stronghold or an area where there was a history of persecution of MDC supporters in the period 2000-2006.

20 July 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

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