Freedom House. Armenia ranked “partly free” country
Washington-based US watchdog Freedom House released on January 13 Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties.
According to the survey’s findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report.
The survey results ranked for 9 years long Armenia “Partly free” country.
Partly Free countries are characterized by some restrictions on political rights and civil liberties, often in a context of corruption, weak rule of law, ethnic strife, or civil war.
According to the report the situation is even worse in Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Northern Korea, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tibet.