Strasbourg, France, Oct 22, 2025 (AFP) - Jailed Belarus, Georgia journalists win EU's top rights prize

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The EU parliament awarded the bloc's Sakharov human rights prize on Wednesday to jailed Georgian journalist and editor Mzia Amaghlobeli and Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, calling them symbols of the "struggle for freedom". Amaghlobeli, 50, has emerged as a symbol of journalistic defiance to what the European Union says is a slide toward authoritarianism in her Caucasian nation -- once a top candidate for the bloc's membership. Poc......

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