Azerbaijan ‘partly free’ on Internet access - watchdog
BAKU – Azerbaijan is among countries with partial government regulation of the Internet, Freedom House has said.
With 48 out of 100 points, the country ranked "partly free" in the US rights watchdog’s report on Internet freedom worldwide, alongside its neighbor Turkey and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Estonia topped the rankings. The former Soviet Baltic state is followed by the United States, Germany, Australia and Britain.
The most "repressive" countries were Iran, Burma, Cuba, China and Tunisia, the report said.
Russia, Thailand, Jordan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe ranked "not free", but there is more Internet freedom there compared to the lowest-ranked countries. However, there are valid grounds to presume that access to the worldwide web in these countries could deteriorate any time, Freedom House concluded.
An estimated 27 percent of the people in Azerbaijan had Internet access in 2009. However, only 12 percent of the population in the country of 9 million own computers, with the rest of the Web users availing of PCs at work or in Internet cafes.
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