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Query responses are replies to focused queries or requests for Information that are submitted in the course of the refugee status determination process.
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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

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

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. 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: Treatment of people returned to Zimbabwe upon their arrival at Harare Airport, including whether citizens are interrogated (2008 - August 2010)

17 August 2010 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | 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. What are the activities of the MDC Women's Association? 2. Have the Association's members been targeted by ZANU-PF members/supporters? 3. Deleted 4. Are family members of MDC activists currently subject to harm by authorities, ZANU-PF supporters? 5. Please provide relevant information on rallies held in Highfields and Glenorah in late 2008. 6. Are there reports that officers from the Central Intelligence Office harass returned students from overseas? Are returning students suspected/accused of spying for western states?

16 July 2010 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Zimbabwe: 1. Deleted. 2. Deleted. 3. Please provide a general update on the situation for Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members, both rank and file members and prominent leaders, in respect to their possible treatment and risk of serious harm in Zimbabwe. 4. Please provide an update on the present situation in respect of Zimbabwean nationals who have lived and studied in Australia being regarded as spies in Zimbabwe upon their return to that country. 5. Please provide information on whether there were problems or delays or refusal in the granting of Zimbabwean passports to MDC members leading up to January and February 2003.

21 June 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. Is there any updated information as to treatment of ordinary MDC supporters generally, and in the Mutare area in particular, since the formation of the government of national unity? 2. Is there any recent information on whether persons who have left Zimbabwe, or who travel outside Zimbabwe face harm or adverse attention on return, or are classified as "snitches" simply because of overseas travel or the perception they would be opposed to the Government because they have travelled overseas? 3. Is there any information as to whether religious workers or pastors in the Worldwide Family of God Church in particular have faced pressure to publicly support the Zanu PF, or have experienced threats or mistreatment because of their refusal to publicly support Zanu PF? 4. Is there any recent information as to whether persons who have studied overseas are perceived to be opposed to the Government, or have faced adverse treatment on return simply because they have lived outside Zimbabwe for a number of years in countries like Australia? 5. Is there any information on whether the government of national unity is actively seeking to encourage overseas Zimbabwean citizens to return to the country to assist in its reconstruction? 6. Is there any information on the treatment of mixed ethnicity relationships (Shona and Caucasian) and any evidence to suggest members of such relationships have been targetted or killed because of their relationship?

10 November 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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