According to the report, Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan again ranked as the worst human rights abusers; inhabitants of two territories, Chechnya and Tibet, were also included on the roster of worst abusers. South Ossetia, a disputed province of Georgia, is included in the report for the first time as a disputed territory. A total of 17 countries and four territories are profiled in the report. These countries are drawn from the 42 countries and nine territories that are currently ranked Not Free in Freedom in the World 2009, Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties.
"The countries and territories in Worst of the Worst are precisely the ones that the Human Rights Council should focus on," said Paula Schriefer, Freedom House director of advocacy, at a press conference for the release of the report in Geneva. "In these countries, regimes control the daily lives of citizens by denying them basic human rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of belief."
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