World / Iraq Shoe-Chucker Gets Reduced Sentence Iraqi journalist faces only 1 year in prison on lesser charge By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff Posted Apr 7, 2009 11:50 AM CDT Copied A protester holds up a picture of US President George W. Bush with a shoe fixed on it, during a demonstration in support of Muntadar al-Zaidi in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud) Muntadar al-Zaidi, famous for throwing his shoes at former President Bush, has been granted an appeal that cuts his prison time from 3 years to 1, the BBC reports. A court of appeals agreed with Zaidi’s lawyers that the Iraqi journalist deserves a charge of insulting—rather than assaulting—a foreign leader, and changed his sentence accordingly. The judge also took Zaidi’s youth and lack of prior convictions into consideration. (More Iraq stories.) Report an error