Overview
- Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced the laureates on October 22, naming the detained journalists from Belarus and Georgia.
- Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian journalist from the Polish minority, has been held since 2021 and is serving an eight-year penal-colony sentence.
- The Parliament reports Poczobut’s health has worsened in custody and says his family is not allowed to visit him.
- Mzia Amaglobeli, director of Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was arrested after January 2025 protests and received a two-year sentence in August, becoming Georgia’s first female political prisoner since independence.
- EU lawmakers reiterated demands for both to be freed, pressed for targeted measures including sanctions and an EU-Georgia agreement review, and hosted Belarusian opposition leaders in Strasbourg.