1. The European Parliament has awarded this year's Sakharov Prize to two imprisoned journalists: Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia.
2. Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist from the Polish minority in Belarus, is currently serving an eight-year sentence for criticizing the authoritarian government of President Alexander Lukashenko.
3. Mzia Amaglobeli, the director of online media outlets in Georgia, was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in anti-government protests and has become a symbol of the country's pro-democracy movement.