The Socioscope Societal Research and Consultancy Center carried out the survey under a joint project eTV between Epress.Am and Helsinki Association for Human Rights.
Nine online media outlets, including Epress.am, Tert.am, Lragir.am, News.am, Azatutyun.am, Hetq.am, Galatv.am, Aravot.am, Ilur.am, have published 5,860 articles concerning the violation of human rights in Armenia from July, 2013 to June, 2014.
Results of the survey shed more lights on the unpleasant human rights situation in Armenia. The capital city, Yerevan has turned into the main center of civil liberties violations with an index of 68 percent, while the other regions are witnessing a 32 percent of rights violations.
The investigators, detectives and policemen held 25.9 percent of the entire violation cases, the media reports said.
The courts and judges of Armenia are the second top perpetrators of the human rights in the country. As much as 11 percent of the articles are about unfair judicial acts and violations of the judicial procedure by the courts in Armenia.
The president of the country was also among the violators of the civil rights. Thus, 1.3 percent of the articles published in the media blamed President Serzh Sargsyan for breaching civil liberties.
Meanwhile, 26.25 of the total law-violations disturbed the ordinary citizens. Furthermore, 850 articles were published on the infringement of rights of various social groups and detainees, as well as woman violence.
The study also revealed the amount of violations against the political parties in Armenia. Thus, the Armenian National Congress led by Levon Ter-Petrosyan mostly suffered from the law breaches.
World Report 2014 of the Human Rights Watch reported about ill-treatment reigning in police custody in Armenia. Authorities often have turned a blind eye to the claims of ill-treatment and victims of violation were pressured to retract their complaints, the report noted.
The report stressed that the violence and discriminations based on sexual orientation and gender identity by both state and non-state actors were serious problems in the South Caucasus state.
The report criticized the status of freedom of expression in the post-Soviet country, highlighting the absence of pluralism in broadcast media. Only one of Armenia`s 13 television channels arranged live political talk shows during the elections. International election observers noted the media supported "selective approaches" to cover post-election developments. (azernews.az)

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