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  • Survey lists most world's most repressive regimes

    05/06/2008 7:43:35 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 32 replies · 98+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/6/08 | Barry Schweid - ap
    WASHINGTON - In a worldwide survey, a democracy watchdog organization said 90 countries respect a broad array of basic human rights and political freedom while 103 countries fail to some degree to observe standards of liberal democracy. Eight countries were judged by Freedom House, the New York-based organization, to have the most repressive regimes. They were Cuba, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Two restive territories, Chechnya and Tibet, "whose inhabitants suffer intense repression," the organization said, were placed in the lowest category, as well. Violent repression of protests of food prices in Myanmar, or Burma as...