World | Iraq Shoe-Chucker Gets Reduced Sentence Iraqi journalist faces only 1 year in prison on lesser charge By Nick McMaster 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. Read These Next Online boo-bears go after the demo firm tearing White House apart. President Monroe's daughter wrote a desperate plea in 1839. Plane windshield partially shatters mid-flight. There's a suspect. A well-known nutrition influencer died after a home birth. Report an error