2025 Sakharov Prize award ceremony

President Roberta Metsola will award the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to journalists Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia. Both laureates are imprisoned in their respective countries and will be represented by others during the ceremony. A press conference with President Metsola and representatives of the laureates will take place before the plenary ceremony at 11.30 in Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Galizia press conference room. The ceremony and the press conference will be broadcast on Parliament’s multimedia website and on EbS+.

Representatives of the 2025 Sakharov Prize laureates plus other figures shortlisted for the prize will join a hybrid media seminar from 9.00 to 11.15.

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