'Shoe-Thrower' jailed for 3 years

Muntandhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who in December threw shoes at former US president George W. Bush, has today been jailed for three years. He was charged with ‘assaulting a foreign leader’.
In the immediate aftermath of the shoe-throwing, the reporter was detained in custody where he has since remained.
The judge rejected Zeidi’s defence lawyer’s argument that the ‘charge is invalid as Bush was not in Baghdad on an official visit’.