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Iraq - Call for leniency for Muntadar al-Zaidi after shoe throwing protest
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR95.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 16/12/2008
Year Published: 2008
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, of al-Bagdhadia television arrested after hurling his shoes at George W Bush at a Baghdad
press conference.
Abstract: Montreal - Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, of al-Bagdhadia television arrested after hurling his shoes at George W Bush at a Baghdad
press conference during a surprise visit by the US president on 14 December 2008.
"We obviously regret that the journalist used this method of protest against the politics of the American president", the worldwide press freedom organisation said. "But for humanitarian reasons and to ease tension, we ...
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