(ANSA) - BELGRADE, SEP 29 - Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian journalist and human rights defender, has won the Vaclav Havel Prize, which is awarded annually by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly during its autumn session in memory of "the architect of the 1989 Velvet Revolution and an enduring symbol of opposition to despotism." For the thirteenth edition, the other two finalists were Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli and Azerbaijani journalist Ulvi Hasanli, both of whom are currently imprisoned. "It is no coincidence that this year's three finalists are journalists," emphasised the president of the parliamentary assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, recalling Vaclav Havel's quote that "words can change history, and the truth can bring down dictatorships." (ANSA).