Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. The EU parliament awarded the bloc's Sakharov human rights prize on October 22, 2025 to jailed Georgian journalist and editor Mzia Amaghlobeli and Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, calling them symbols of the "struggle for freedom ». (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)