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Bangladesh: 1. Has the current military government reduced or stopped political targeting between Awami League, BNP, and associated minor parties? 2. What is the current status of the Gono Forum? Do they have representation in Australia ? 3. Are outspoken female activists, who promote increased human rights for Bangladesh women, targeted? If so, what happens to them? 4. Are non conformist females in Bangladesh targeted? If so, what type of difficulties do they face?

5 June 2007 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Pakistan: 1. Please provide information on the district of Dir in regard to militant Islamist groups such as the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad. Have these groups been known to target advocates of women's rights or other liberal activists? 2. Please provide further information on the situation for advocates of women's rights, and other liberal activists, in Dir and the NWFP at large. 3. Please provide information on the situation for advocates of women's rights in more liberal locales of Pakistan, such as in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. Have any such activists in these cities been harmed by militant Islamists from the NWFP, or for activities conducted in the NWFP? 4. Please provide information on any restrictions that might prevent relocating to a major city such as Islamabad, Lahore or Karachi. 5. Is there any evidence to suggest that ethnic Pushtuns experience mistreatment in Pakistan as suspected supporters of Al Qaeda? What is the situation for Pashtuns in this regard in Karachi?

16 May 2007 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Colombia: 1. Situation for trade unionists in Colombia. 2. State protection for trade unionists in Colombia. 3. Information on the demobilisation of paramilitaries and the situation for victims/witnesses to paramilitary violence

21 March 2007 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Bahrain: 1. The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights was closed in September 2004. What were the circumstances for the closure? 2. Is it still banned? 3. Are there any other similar groups?

21 November 2005 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Are you aware of any monitoring activity by Vietnamese Embassies and Consulates of expatriate Vietnamese and Vietnamese citizens travelling or residing abroad? 2. How are Vietnamese citizens who have been involved in anti-regime activity overseas and who have been critical of the Vietnamese regime treated on return by the Government? Does this also apply to failed asylum seekers, and would the authorities? reaction be any different in these circumstances? 3. Are you aware of any reports of prosecution of returned asylum seekers by the Vietnamese authorities on the grounds that they sought asylum in Australia? 4. What is the current level of press censorship and freedom of speech in Vietnam? 5. What is the nature of the relationship between the press and Government in Vietnam? 6. How are people who have criticised the regime (for example, via internet or distribution of pamphlets) or have expressed anti-regime political views in Vietnam treated by the Government? 7. How are religious group leaders, who are perceived by the authorities as having become too political, treated by the authorities, e.g. Buddhist leaders, or other religious group leaders e.g. Protestant groups or those in so-called "home-based religions"? 8. Do local authorities at times act arbitrarily at the local level regardless of directions from the central authority?

24 March 2005 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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