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VIETNAM <br />included setting up barriers or guards outside diplomats' residences or calling <br />individuals into local police stations for random and repetitive questioning. <br />c. Freedom of Religion <br />See the Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report at <br />www.state.�4ov /i /drl /irf /mt. <br />d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of <br />Refugees, and Stateless Persons <br />The constitution provides for freedom of movement within the country, foreign <br />travel, emigration, and repatriation, but the government imposed some limits on <br />freedom of movement for certain individuals. The government generally <br />cooperated with the UNHCR and other humanitarian organizations in providing <br />protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, refugees, returning <br />refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other persons of concern. <br />25 <br />Local government authorities observed but did not hinder the UNHCR and foreign <br />diplomatic fact - finding and monitoring visits to the Central Highlands. The <br />UNHCR reported that it was able to meet with returnees in private. Foreign <br />diplomats experienced some resistance from lower -level officials in permitting <br />private interviews of returnees. As in previous years, local police officials <br />sometimes were present during foreign diplomat interviews with returnees but left <br />when asked. Provincial governments generally continued to honor their <br />obligations to reintegrate peacefully ethnic minority returnees from Cambodia. <br />In February, 55 Montagnards who fled the Central Highlands for Cambodia were <br />resettled in third countries. The UNHCR, which conducted several monitoring <br />trips during the year, reported that there was "no perceptible evidence of <br />mistreatment" of any of the ethnic minority individuals it monitored in the Central <br />Highlands. <br />In- country Movement: Several political dissidents, amnestied with probation or <br />under house arrest, were subject to official restrictions on their movements. <br />A government restriction regarding travel to certain areas remained in effect. It <br />requires citizens and resident foreigners to obtain a permit to visit border areas; <br />defense facilities; industrial zones involved in national defense; areas of "national <br />