Freedom House. Armenian Internet is free

Freedom House organization published Freedom on the Net – 2016 annual report, where Armenia is considered to be a country with internet freedom (30 points).

The countries are classified by 0-100 points in the report, where 0 is the freest and 100 is the least free. Accordingly, countries getting 0-30 are classified as free, 31-60-partially free and 61-100 not free.

Armenia got 28 points in 2014-2015 and 29 points in 2013 in the chart of countries with Internet freedom. Georgia is also considered to be a country with internet freedom among the countries of the region (25 points). Azerbaijan is partially free with 57 points, while neighboring Turkey (61 points) and Iran (87 points) are not free.

The internet is not free also in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, which are members of Eurasian Economic Union.

Iceland and Estonia registered the highest points among countries with free Internet (6 points each).

Freedom House monitored media and internet freedom in 65 countries.