FREEDOM HOUSE: ARMENIA IS AMONG ‘PARTY FREE’ COUNTRIES

ArmInfo
2010-01-14 14:57:00

ArmInfo. The state of human rights and political freedom in 2009
worsened in Armenia as compared to 2008, with Armenia assigned a
score of six points out of seven (the worst) according to the annual
report by Freedom House, a Washington- based international human rights
watchdog. Armenia, according to the report, is among the ‘partly free’
countries along with Georgia and Turkey; as for Azerbaijan, it is
considered to be ‘non-free’ during the recent few years. Russia and
Iran are also among non-free countries. The experts of Freedom House
assigned a score of five points to the state of political and civil
freedoms in Nagorno Karabakh. The Baltic states and Ukraine, among
the former Soviet countries, are in the category of free countries.

To recall, two key indicators are taken into account when preparing
a rating of countries: the level of political freedoms and that of
civil freedoms. The level of political freedoms in Armenia makes up
6 points and the civil ones – 4 points.