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	India: 1. Please provide information about the Hindu Sheve Sana Party, the Hindu Dharam Parchar Party. 2. Is Shiv Sena an integral part of the BJP? Is it also linked to the RSS? 3. Please provide information about the student wing of the Hindu Sheve Sana Party in Punjab. What are its policies? Is it mostly comprised of Hindu students? 4. Please provide information about the Khalistan Student Federation (KSF) in Punjab. 5. Is there a history of conflict between the KSF and the student wing in Punjab from 2005 onwards? Now? Is there any record of a hit list operated by the KSF? If so, would it keep names from several years previously? 6. Is there police protection available in respect of harassment by KSF or Khalistan people? 7. Deleted. 8. Is there any record of the KSF working underground? Are they meant to be dissolved? Are they still active? What is meant by the expression that the Sikhs do not leave revenge referring to the death of Mrs Gandhi? 9. Are the KSF or the Khalistan people active in all areas of India? 10. Please provide information about possible relocation in India. 11. Please provide any other information that you consider relevant to these issues	15 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Poland: 1. Please provide an analysis of the rights of gays and lesbians in Poland and their ability to express their sexuality freely. 2. Please provide an analysis of the treatment of gay men in Poland by private actors. 3. Please provide an analysis of the availability of state protection for gay men in Poland. 4. Please provide similar analyses with respect to the United Kingdom, which identifies any relevant differences amongst the four countries of the state, and Poland	15 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Pakistan: 1. How active is the Taliban, and the Tehrik-e-Taliban in particular, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa? 2. How active is the Taliban in other parts of Pakistan, particularly in major cities like Karachi?	11 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Thailand: 1. Please provide information about the following: (i) whether a baby in the care of their mother would be at risk of being attacked or trafficked because they are half-white, and an Australian citizen, if they were living (a) in Prasat district or Surin district in the north-east border region of Thailand; or (b) elsewhere in Thailand. 2. Please provide information about whether the mother of a half-white Australian baby would be at risk of being seriously harmed because of the need to protect her baby from violence or trafficking. 3. If there is a risk of harm of the type mentioned in Questions 1 or 2, who are the persons or groups who may cause this harm? 4. Would the Thai police or other authorities be willing and able to protect the mother and her baby, who is half-white, and an Australian citizen, from harm of the type mentioned in Questions 1 and 2? If not, why not? 5. If there is no risk of harm to such a mother and her baby in other parts of Thailand, would the mother, who has previously worked as a production worker, be able to live safely and support herself there without the presence and support of family members?	10 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Nepal: 1. What percentage of the population is Christian in Nepal? Does this differ between Kathmandu and rural areas? 2. What is the treatment of Christians in Nepal by members of other religious groups? 3. Do the authorities respond adequately to sectarian problems/tensions? 4. Is there any record of Mormon activity (including proselytising missionaries) in Nepal? If so, how have they been treated?	9 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Myanmar: 1. Please provide background information on the nature of government and key administrative structures in Myanmar, including the basic history of the current governing regime, and information on the military intelligence in Myanmar. 2. Please provide information on the treatment of Chin Christians in Myanmar, with particular reference to whether they are prohibited from worshipping, whether they are prevented from erecting churches, and whether they are prohibited from celebrating Christian festivals, etc. 3. Please provide information on whether there is state or private discrimination against Christians and ethnic minority groups in Myanmar. 4. Deleted. 5. Deleted. 6. Is there any information to suggest that the military harass or discriminate against Chin Christian Ministers, or that the military authorities would torture, detain, or extract forced confessions from Chin Christian Ministers? 7. Please provide information on whether a Christian Minister who is regarded as being political is likely to be targeted by military authorities in Myanmar. 8. Deleted. 9. Deleted. 10. Deleted. 11. Please provide information on whether there are reports of the desecration of Christian crosses in the hills of Chin land. 12. Please provide information on whether immigration officials are reported as accepting bribes to permit Myanmar citizens to leave Myanmar to travel to the Philippines, or to extend passport validity in the Burmese embassy in the Philippines. 13. Please provide information on the extent to which information on the availability of protection visas in the Philippines is generally available within Manila. Please also provide information on the number of Myanmar refugees accepted by the Philippines from 2007 to 2010. Is there any information on the general level of awareness as to the availability of access to protection visas on the part of Christian pastors in Manila?	8 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Zimbabwe: 1. Please provide information on whether someone returning from overseas after prior involvement in attending MDC rallies as a student would be at risk of harm on return to Zimbabwe. 2. Please provide information concerning Mr Munacho Mutezo, former Zimbabwean government Minister: what electorate does or did he represent; when elected and what portfolio(s) held. 3. Are there reports to indicate that Mr Mutezo authorised or organised attacks on MDC members or MDC rallies in the past and if so where and when, and is there any current information as to his recent involvement in such activities?	7 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Indonesia: 1. Please provide relevant information about Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), including its history and the development of the movement. What is the situation for GAM members or supporters now? 2. What is the Komite Peralihan Aceh (KPA)? 3. Please provide relevant information about Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI). 4. Please provide relevant information about Indonesian intelligence. For example, are they known to monitor or spy on Acehnese, including vocal anti-MoU Acehnese living in Malaysia? 5. Can Malaysian permanent residents become citizens of Malaysia? If, yes, what are the qualification requirements? 6. Is Malaysia a signatory to the Refugee Convention? 7. Is it plausible that the UNHCR in Malaysia has stopped providing such assistance to Acehnese separationists? The relevant time period is March 2010. 8. Is Singapore a signatory to the Refugee Convention? 9. How would a vocal anti-MoU Acehnese be treated by the Indonesian authorities in Aceh and other parts of Indonesia? 10. Is there evidence of Indonesian authorities targeting Indonesians including Acehnese Indonesians in Malaysia who are anti-MoU - and who are vocal and open about this position? 11. Is it plausible that the Malaysian security agencies including the police would refuse protection to Malaysian permanent residents who are at risk of serious harm (including getting killed, kidnapped, and/or assaulted) at the hands of Indonesians - including Indonesians of Acehnese background living in Malaysia or visiting Malaysia from Indonesia? 12. Can a person in Indonesia openly advocate for an independent Aceh without being at risk of harm from Indonesian authorities?	4 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Nigeria: 1. Please provide information relating to: (i) Whether a Christian person affiliated with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and who intends to work in the oil industry would be at risk of harm from MEND (a) in the Niger Delta, and (b) elsewhere in Nigeria; a) Whether such a person would be at risk of harm from MEND in the Niger Delta. b) Whether such a person would be at risk of harm from MEND elsewhere in Nigeria. (ii) whether a person who had studied petroleum engineering, but worked in Nigeria in a different field, would be at risk of harm from MEND; (iii) whether such a person is at risk from MEND because he is a member of a well-educated, moderately well-off family and has a father who was a member of the ruling party PDP; (iv) whether the police in Edo State, and in Nigeria generally, would be willing and able to protect such people from the risk of harm from MEND	4 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	South Africa: 1. Please provide information on crime by black South Africans which is directed towards white South Africans. 2. Please provide information on relevant crime rates in Pretoria as compared to other major South African cities to assist me to consider the question of relocation. 3. Is state protection available for whites and white women? 4. Do police have the resources and ability to protect citizens? 5. Is there any information in relation to the claim that "there is a racial war (or genocide) going on"?	4 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses

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