Overview
- EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola praised the laureates’ resilience and commitment to free expression during the Strasbourg ceremony.
- The €50,000 award was received on behalf of the detainees by Andrzej Poczobut’s daughter and a colleague of Msia Amaghlobeli.
- Amaghlobeli, who leads the independent outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti, is serving a two-year sentence in Georgia after an appeals court upheld her conviction in November.
- Poczobut, a correspondent for Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza who covered Belarus’s 2020 protests, is imprisoned under an eight-year sentence handed down in 2023.
- The winners were proposed by the European People’s Party and the European Conservatives and Reformers, underscoring cross-group backing for press freedom cases.