The annual prize is awarded to a journalist "whose work has penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or 'official drivel', as Martha Gellhorn called it".
The prize is awarded in honour of one of the 20th century's greatest reporters to what the organisers describe as "a journalist whose work has penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or 'official drivel', as Martha Gellhorn called it".
He was charged with espionage, "collaborating with hostile governments," and "propaganda against the establishment".
She was arrested due to propaganda against the establishment, Islam and contacts with terrorist groups".
He was charged with "making propaganda for the establishment of a Jewish state in the Crimea".
She was released four months later but he remained in Evin Prison for months on charges including espionage and "propaganda against the establishment".
The son of an Iranian father and holder of dual citizenship, he faces charges of espionage, of "collaborating with foreign governments" and of producing "propaganda against the establishment".
The Washington Post cited Rezaian's lawyer, Leila Ahsan, saying that he is also facing the charge of "collaborating with hostile governments" and "propaganda against the establishment".
Rezaian's trial began last Tuesday, just a few weeks after his family finally learned what crimes he may have been charged with: espionage, collaborating with hostile governments, and "propaganda against the establishment".
OK, so he's not going to be having the stags and hens of Jongleurs choking on their chicken wings anytime soon, but Chomsky's success as an unlikely entertainer suggests that intellectual discourse has a place within the comedy genre and that there is something inherently amusing about the exposure of establishment propaganda.
