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Imprisoned Georgian journalist awarded EU's highest human rights award
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Imprisoned Georgian journalist awarded EU's highest human rights award
22 October 2025

Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of the publications Batumelebi and Netgazeti, who is serving time in Georgia, has been awarded the European Union's highest human rights award, the Sakharov Prize. She also received the same honor from Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut. The €50,000 prize will be presented in absentia to the laureates in Strasbourg on December 16.

A Z volunteer was fined for an unflattering comment about
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A Z volunteer was fined for an unflattering comment about "Akhmat"
21 October 2025

In Belgorod, Z volunteer Irina I. was fined 30,000 rubles for "discrediting the Russian Armed Forces" following a comment on the Telegram channel of Z military correspondent Romanov. Her comments concerned the redeployment of the Russian army unit "Akhmat" from Chechnya to the Belgorod region.

Another Formula TV journalist sentenced to administrative arrest in Georgia
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Another Formula TV journalist sentenced to administrative arrest in Georgia
21 October 2025

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced Keta Tsitskishvili, a journalist for the opposition television channel Formula TV, to five days of administrative arrest. She is accused of blocking a road during a protest on Rustaveli Avenue.

Afgan Mukhtarli criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for releasing a
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Afgan Mukhtarli criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for releasing a "Russian agent"
21 October 2025

Former political prisoner and Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli expressed surprise at the situation surrounding Igor Kartavykh, editor-in-chief of the Russian state news agency Sputnik Azerbaijan. He noted that, despite an ongoing criminal case and official house arrest, the country's authorities released Kartavykh, who is already in Moscow and broadcasting his opinions from there.