from the team:

Hi everyone,

This year, over 60 countries — home to half of the world's population — will hold national elections. As we've seen time and time again, VPNs have proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To ensure people can access accurate information before they cast their vote, we have decided to provide free Proton VPN servers in countries with a history of censorship or political interference in the weeks leading up to the elections: https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections. Today, we’re expanding this list to 5 more countries.

The servers will be switched from paid to free for the period of the election.

List of countries holding elections this year where Proton VPN will provide free servers:

• Rwanda
• Syria (newly added)
• Venezuela
• Algeria
• Jordan (newly added)
• Brazil (newly added)
• Mozambique
• Somaliland
• Mauritius
• Uzbekistan (newly added)
• Sri Lanka
• Tunisia (newly added)

List of countries that already held elections (or are about to hold them), where Proton VPN provided free servers:

• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Pakistan
• Senegal
• Turkey
• Togo
• Chad
• Mauritania (free servers currently available)

Since we launched Proton VPN Observatory, we have documented spikes in Proton VPN signups in real-time (most recently in Kenya), making it an effective measurement of anti-censorship activity in response to various crises worldwide.

We believe this, along with expanding our server infrastructure to include over 6,000 servers in close to 100 countries and making Proton VPN more accessible to users globally, will help make the use of the internet more free and unrestricted globally.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team