Andrzej Poczobut (L), recipient of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, receives an ovation from EU Parliament Roberta Metsola and members of the parliament 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)