{"id":275583,"date":"2016-11-16T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275583"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:33:51","slug":"armenians-afraid-to-report-corruption-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/11\/16\/armenians-afraid-to-report-corruption-report-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenians &#8216;Afraid&#8217; to Report Corruption, Survey Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">People in Armenia refrain from reporting corruption incidents out of fear of retaliation, Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center program manager Varuzhan Hoktanyan announced at a press conference on Wednesday, adding that in the past people would refuse to speak out about corruption issues as they were assured that they would achieve nothing.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Over the past years, there has been a disturbing trend of people becoming scared of reporting corruption cases. 41% of survey respondents said they never reported corruption because they were afraid of the consequences. Incidentally, in the past 68% of respondents wouldn&#39;t talk about corruption because they were convinced it wouldn&#39;t make a difference. This way of thinking has now fallen to 23%,&rdquo; Hoktanyan announced, citing the findings of the social <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/pressrelease\/governments_are_doing_a_poor_job_at_fighting_corruption_across_europe_and_c\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">survey conducted by Transparency International<\/span><\/a><\/strong> in the period December 2015-May 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe report, published by the international anti-corruption organization on Tuesday, ranked Armenia among the worst performing countries in Europe and Central Asia, saying that the country has serious corruption challenges &#8211; &ldquo;corruption among members of parliament, high bribery&nbsp;rates and a negative social environment for engaging in anti-corruption actions&rdquo; &#8211; in urgent need of being addressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOver the past years, there has been a disturbing trend of people becoming scared of reporting corruption cases. 41% of survey respondents said they never reported corruption because they were afraid of the consequences&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20624,699,17743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}