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Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli win Sakharov Prize

The EU Parliament is awarding this year’s Human Rights Prize to a representative of the free press. Both had “paid a high price for telling the truth to the powerful,” said EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

Marion Bergermann
23. October 2025
Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for one of Poland's major newspapers, Gazeta Wyborcza, speaks to media in front of a court in Grodno, Belarus, 23 September 2013 after his remission in the court. In a closed trial in Grodno, the court on 05 July 2011 convicted him and gave him a two-year suspended sentence for defamation of Presiden...
Andrzej Poczobut's family is not allowed to visit the journalist in prison. (picture alliance / dpa)

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Last updated: 23. October 2025

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