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Vietnam: 1. Please provide background information on the Hoa Hao branch of Buddhism, including its history, establishment, core tenets, and philosophy. 2. How does Hoa Hao Buddhism differ from other branches of Buddhism? 3. Please provide information on the demographics of Hoa Hao Buddhism in Vietnam, including total numbers, percentages, location, and predominance. 4. Please provide information on the Ancestral Temple. 5. In what sense are there official as compared to unofficial religious groups in Vietnam? Was Hoa Hao Buddhism officially recognised in Vietnam in 1999? 6. Please provide information on the Hoa Hao Central Buddhist Church (HHCBC). 7. Please provide information on the Hoa Hao Administrative Council, including when and why it was formed, its purpose, and its major achievements. 8. Is there any information about the Hoa Hao Buddhists splitting into 2 groups following suppression of the religion, and were leaders detained? 9. Is the Hoa Hao Buddhist branch seen as a political opposition force to the ruling regime in Vietnam? 10. Do Hoa Hao Buddhists experience any societal discrimination as a result of their religion? 11. Please provide current information on whether Hoa Hao Buddhists have been arrested, detained, or otherwise mistreated by the ruling regime in Vietnam. 12. Is there information on what the local police attitude is towards followers of Hoa Hao? Is there information that government authorities from Ho Chi Minh City will harm/mistreat followers, please provide information on the distinction between the local and the national authorities which might take an interest in the religion. 13. Is there information on authorities seizing or confiscating Hoa Hao properties since the end of the Vietnam War? 14. Is there information to confirm or deny that a government document dated 18 February 1979 laid out a 15-year campaign to exterminate the Hoa Hao Buddhist religion? 15. Is there information to show that the Vietnamese authorities banned the celebration of the Founder's Day Festival (the founder being Huynh Phu So) in 1999 or so? 16. Please provide information on the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Hoa Hao at the Ancestral Temple in 1999, whether it was sought to be banned but attracted 1 million attendees. 17. Is there information on two Hoa Hao Buddhists self-immolating in 2005? 18. Is there any information of a court in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap sentencing four Hoa Hao followers to between 4 and 6 years imprisonment for creating public disorder? Is so, please provide information on this. 19. Is there information of a hunger strike in 2006 which relates to the Hoa Hao religion? 3 February 2011

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Please provide an update on the Vietnamese government's attitude towards Protestant Christians. 2. If a person was blacklisted in 1974, is this of any practical consequence in 2010? 3. Does the Vietnamese government punish persons who previously sought asylum in Hong Kong? 4. Does the Vietnamese government impose high home ownership values for particular persons in order to impose high taxes on those people's homes? 1 November 2010

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Are there any laws relating to discrimination or violence against homosexuals or lesbians? 2. Do you have any more information about the willingness or otherwise of authorities to protect lesbian or homosexual victims of violence or discrimination? 25 January 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Please provide details about NUFLVN e.g. when it was formed, its aims and objectives, its leaders, its activities, and the Vietnamese Government's attitude towards NUFLVN and treatment of its members - especially around 1981/82, 1996, and more recently. 2. Was there a "political gaol" called Phan Dang Luu in Ho Chi Minh in 1982? If so, provide any details about it e.g. location and size. 3. Did the Vietnamese authorities not allow people with "bad records" to work in the 1980s? 4. Was non-government employment available at that time for someone who had 14 years of education and a qualification in accounting? 5. Anything else of relevance 4 September 2006

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Please locate any information about the Buddhist sect Tinh Do. 2. Is there any evidence of the Vietnamese authorities harassing members of the Tinh Do sect? 31 May 2006

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. What is the Vietnamese Government's attitude to Christians? 2. Is there a restriction on religion? 3. Have priests/pastors been arrested? 4. Have ordinary parishioners been harassed by the government? Can they worship in their churches? 5. Do the parishioners therefore worship in private homes, secretly? 6. Are these broken up by the authorities, sometimes forcefully? 7. Are there "wanted lists"? 6 December 2005

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Could you please check Vietnamese citizenship laws as to whether you lose you citizenship if left illegally? 2. Would such persons still be citizens? 29 November 2005

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

Vietnam: 1. Can you provide information on the significance of household registration in Vietnam and in particular the ramifications of not having household registration? 2. What are the ways in which one may lose household registration? 3. And how does one regain household registration? 4. How do the authorities in Vietnam deal with persons suspected of or involved in people smuggling? 5. How is illegal departure from the country viewed by the authorities? 10 May 2005

Category: Country Information | 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

Category: Country Information | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses

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