Overview
- Parliament President Roberta Metsola condemned their imprisonment as based on fabricated accusations and called for both journalists to be freed.
- Poczobut, a correspondent for Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza and a critic of Alexander Lukashenko, is serving an eight-year sentence in Belarus.
- Amaghlobeli, who leads the independent outlets Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was convicted in 2025 and sentenced to two years in prison in Georgia.
- The laureates were jointly nominated by the European People’s Party and the European Conservatives and Reformists groups.
- The €50,000 prize will be presented in Strasbourg on December 16, 2025, with both laureates unable to attend in person.