{"id":165930,"date":"2025-11-27T20:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/165930\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"sakharov-prize-to-be-handed-to-poczobuts-daughter-jana","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/165930\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakharov Prize to be handed to Poczobut\u2019s daughter Jana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>November 27,\u00a0<em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought\u2014awarded earlier this month to imprisoned Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut\u2014will be presented to his daughter Jana at the European Parliament (EP) on December 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20251125IPR31582\/2025-sakharov-prize-interviews-with-laureates-and-finalists-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> the EP press office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jana\u00a0Poczobut\u00a0will be accompanied by\u00a0Anna Kietli\u0144ska, president of the Podlaskie branch of the Polish Community Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\u00a0Mzia Amaglobeli, from Georgia, the representatives attending the award ceremony will be\u00a0Irma Dimitradze,\u00a0journalist at <em>Gazeti Batumelebi<\/em>, and\u00a0Khatuna Jinjikhadze,\u00a0deputy director of the Civil Society Foundation in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poczobut, a contributor to&nbsp;<em>Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em>, has been in custody since March 2021. In February 2023, the Hrodna Regional Court sentenced him to eight years in prison after Judge D\u017amitryj Bubien\u010dyk found him guilty of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions. Human rights defenders have recognized him as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/163678\/\">Poczobut awarded Poland\u2019s Order of the White Eagle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 27,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0The 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought\u2014awarded earlier this month to imprisoned Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut\u2014will be presented to his daughter Jana at the European Parliament (EP) on December 16, said the EP press office. Jana\u00a0Poczobut\u00a0will be accompanied by\u00a0Anna Kietli\u0144ska, president of the Podlaskie branch of the Polish Community Association. For\u00a0Mzia Amaglobeli, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":65790,"template":"","rubric":[14,13],"class_list":["post-165930","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sakharov Prize to be handed to Poczobut\u2019s daughter Jana | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 27,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0The 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought\u2014awarded earlier this month to imprisoned Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut\u2014will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/165930\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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