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Imprisoned journalists receive this year’s Sakharov Prize

by AI | 22.Oct 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The imprisoned Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian colleague Mzia Amaglobeli receive the EU Parliament’s Sakharov Prize.

The building of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photo: EP

Strasbourg – Imprisoned journalists in Belarus and Georgia receive the EU’s highest human rights award from the European Parliament.

Polish-Belarusian Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian colleague Mzia Amaglobeli are honored by the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola.

“Their courage has made them symbols of the fight for freedom and democracy,” said Metsola in the chamber in Strasbourg when she announced this year’s winners of the Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Poczobut was arrested in 2021 in Belarus and sentenced two years later to eight years in prison. Amaglobeli was arrested in Georgia in January this year and has been sentenced to two years in prison.

The Sakharov Prize – named after the Soviet nuclear physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov – has been awarded since 1988. Last year, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was honored, who this year also received the Nobel Peace Prize.

(October 22)