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Fiji: 1. Deleted. 2. What is the attitude of Bainimarama and the military/police in Fiji to persons involved in the 2000 coup and to persons who may be perceived as able to name persons in Fiji society or the military who were associated with the 2000 coup?

16 May 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Kenya: 1. Please provide background information about the Mungiki, including its history, its tribal connections, its objectives, its membership and ways of operating

14 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

RRT Case No. 1006415

13 April 2011 | Judicial Body: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Country of origin information (COI) - Impunity - Persecution based on political opinion - Police - Political parties | Countries: Australia - Zimbabwe

China: 1. Deleted. 2. Deleted. 3. What official avenues would be available to a small business person being stood over by corrupt police, to complain about that? If there is a procuratorate system, please provide information as to what that consists of in Liupanshui City or for Guizhou province

12 April 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Nepal: 1. Please provide information on the background, philosophy and history of the Maoists generally and their establishment and activities in Nepal, and in particular in Bakachol-9, Khotang, Nepal, and in particular Jhakribash. 2. Please provide information on the background, philosophy and history of the Young Communist League (YCL) in Nepal and in particular in Bakachol-9, Khotang, Nepal, and in particular Jhakribash. 3. Deleted. 4. Please provide information on whether the Maoists and/or Young Communist League (YCL) are in conflict or opposition with the Nepali Congress Party, and if so, whether there is violence directed towards members of the latter, and if so, is that directed to leaders/activists of the Nepali Congress Party or to the rank and file members as well. 5. Is there any report or information that suggests that the Maoists and YCL are stronger than the police and people report to YCL instead of going to the police? 6. Is there information to confirm or deny that the Maoists and YCL are responsible for abduction, kidnapping, rape, robbery, murder and shootouts and that mental harassment is a common activity of Maoists? 7. Deleted. 8. Please provide information on whether the Bakachol-9 district, Khotang, Nepal, and in particular Jhakribash is heavily affected by the Maoists insurgency which amongst other things recruited children under 16 for military training, abducted people with different views to their own and request money from them. 9. Is there information to suggest that Maoists in that area would force their way into the local village homes and stay as unwanted guests and be required to be provided with free accommodation, food and funds? 10. Deleted. 11. Deleted. 12. Deleted. 13. Please provide information on the reliability and effectiveness of the police service in Nepal and in particular its effectiveness in protecting Nepalese citizens against Maoists and the Young Communist League

28 March 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Egypt: 1. Please provide information about how marriages between Coptic Orthodox and other Christian denominations are viewed generally; also marriages between a Copt and a foreigner. 2. Are marriages recognised by the Coptic Church? If not, what are the legal consequences of this lack of recognition? 3. Is there any evidence of honour killings being carried out in Upper Egypt in d circumstances where a male marries without his family's consent when a marriage has already been arranged for him? 4. Would the police provide protection in such circumstances?

22 March 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

China: 1. Are those who practice Falun Gong in their home likely to be detained by the police? 2. Please describe authorities' treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. 3. Please provide any information available on whether this treatment is different in Jiangsu Province

21 February 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

India: 1. Please provide information on the process of lodging police reports. What documents would be involved? 2. What information is there on the mafia in Punjab? Do they engage in land grabs? 3. Does the mafia in Punjab target Sikhs? 4. Please provide an update as to whether the Akali Dal are still the governing party in Punjab and whether the Prime Minister is still a Sikh.

21 February 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Egypt: 1. Please provide information relating to Coptic Christian monasteries located in and around Aswan, as well as monasteries located to the west of Cairo, in the region between Cairo and the border with Libya. 2. Please provide updated information on the treatment of Coptic Christians within Egypt generally, including by the police as well as by the Muslim population generally. 3. Please provide general information on Coptic Christianity, including its main tenets, practices and beliefs. 4. Please provide information on whether a person released on bail for crimes relating to kidnapping, religious conversion and insulting Islam, would have difficulty departing the country.

28 January 2011 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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