Al Zaidi

Muntadhar Al-Zaidi
... Muntadhar al-Zaidi (Arabic منتظر الزيدي‎ Muntaẓar az-Zaydī) is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned ... As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with a Lebanese TV channel ... On November 16, 2007, al-Zaidi was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Baghdad ...

Muntadhar Al-Zaidi - Al-Zaidi Humanitarian Foundation
... Following his release, al-Zaidi went to Geneva and announced that he had started creating a humanitarian agency/foundation ... and manned by Iraqi doctors and medical staff." His lawyer said that al-Zaidi "hopes to surf on the wave of support he has gained to do some good." ...

Muntadhar Al-Zaidi - Shoe Incident - Release
... Defense attorney Karim al-Shujairi said al-Zaidi would be released on September 14, 2009 after spending nine months in jail, he would be freed early for good behavior ... Al-Zaidi said that he had been beaten with electric cables and iron bars and immersed in cold water ... problems with my teeth, back and other parts of my body where I was tortured." Al-Zaidi also declared, "I am free again, but my homeland is still a prison." On September 15, 2009, al-Zaidi stated "I ...

Muntadhar Al-Zaidi - Shoe Incident - Reaction - International
... or other ill-treatment of Muntadhar al-Zaidi and to prosecute any persons alleged to be responsible for such abuses ... The International Federation of Journalists has said al-Zaidi should be released for humanitarian reasons ... Ashour said the union would protect al-Zaidi's life, "which at the moment is under threat." The Lebanese television channel NTV offered a job to al-Zaidi ...