ARMENIA AGAIN AMONG ‘NOT FREE’ IN FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT

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16:00 ~U 29.04.10

A Washington-based international non-governmental organization Freedom
House has released its 2010 report on freedom of press in which the
countries are classified as "free," "partially free" and "not free."

Armenia is among those states "not free" side by side with Cameroon,
Côte d’Ivoire, Marroco, Katar, Azerbaïdjan and Iran.

However, Freedom House has registered some improvements in Armenia.

"We see a reduction of censorship in Armenia and Moldova, as well as
a decrease of control over news reports," reads the report.

Though Armenia has improved the situation over freedom of media by
two points (now it is 66 points while last year it was 68), it has
nevertheless remained in the same group.

Of the three countries in the South Caucasus only Georgia has been
included among "partially free" states.

The report includes 196 states of which 35% have a "free" press, 33%
has "partially free" press and 32% – "not free."

The list of the states that have "free" press are Finland, Iceland,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Andorra, Swiss.

Among "not free" states are Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Eritrea,
Libya, Burma, Turkmenistan and North Korea.