There are separate issues in the report, the authenticity and objectivity of which are questionable. Such a statement made today Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee, while commenting the Freedom House report.

“The ranking of countries in the Freedom House ratings is controversial and unconvincing. For example, according to Freedom House, Uruguay is a freer democracy than Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and Germany; Tuvalu is ahead of Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, the US and France; In Vanuatu, “as it turns out”, there is a better free democracy than in Poland, Bulgaria, Israel.

There is one fragment in the report that is really insulting and humiliating for any Georgian, in particular, Freedom House puts the occupation regime of Abkhazia next to Hungary, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and Georgia in its ranking category of partially free democracies - this truly despotic regime, which has killed thousands of innocent civilians and expelled hundreds of thousands of our compatriots from their native lands, where human rights and freedoms are being grossly violated on a daily basis, something that should be the main focus of Freedom House reports.

According to the data presented, Freedom House is in fact an ally of a regime that legitimizes occupation and ethnic cleansing, it officially states that it turns out that the occupation regime in Abkhazia provides more human rights than NATO member Turkey or for example Kazakhstan”, - said Mikheil Sarjveladze.