9. Turmenistan: The internet in Turkmenistan (also known as Turkmesia or Turkmania) is heavily regulated. In 2001, a number of small independent Internet Service Providers were forced out of business when the government-run TurkmenTelecom was granted a monopoly over data services. Only 2000 people are allowed access to the internet in this country. The state has a monitored communication system and state-controlled press as well. The country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow only allowed access to the Web in 2008. 2009 saw Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal and blogs, as well as opposition sites blocked by Berdimuhamedow’s government, according to the Reporters without Borders.

10. Uzbekistan: According to the report featured in Reporters without Borders, Uzbekistan took measures to see that content about the Arab Spring remained inaccessible to citizens. IHF, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, as well as United States Department of State and Council of the European Union call Uzbekistan as “an authoritarian state with limited civil rights” since the most widespread violations are torture, random arrests, and restrictions of freedom of religion, speech and the press, of free association and assembly. The Central Asian country’s government is accused of unlawful termination of human life and of denying its citizens freedom of assembly and expression.