Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut (L) poses with the Sakharov prize next to EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola 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)