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Armenia has risen from Partly Free to Free Country in the annual Freedom on the Net 2018 report by Freedom House independent human rights watchdog. 

Freedom on the Net is a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countries around the globe, covering 87 percent of the world’s internet users.  

Armenia is ranked among the 19 countries where the organization has observed progress over the past year.

“Of the 19 countries with overall score improvements, two – Armenia and the Gambia – earned upgrades in their internet freedom status,” the report says.

“Armenia rose from Partly Free to Free after citizens successfully used social media platforms, communication apps, and live-streaming services to bring about political change in the country’s Velvet Revolution in April,” reads the document.

The study found that the “global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018.”

“The biggest score declines took place in Egypt and Sri Lanka, followed by Cambodia, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Venezuela,” says the report.