He was eventually led into an army pick-up truck along with his brother Durgan. Durgan al-Zaidi said before Discount Baume & Mercier news conference that his brother intended to add his voice to calls for a major protest in Baghdad for Friday. The journalist shot to international notoriety for hurling both his shoes at Bush during a December Discount Bell&Ross press conference in Baghdad, and was eventually sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a head of state. That was reduced to one year on appeal, and his sentence was cut further for good behaviour. Zaidi alleged he suffered electric shocks and simulated drowning while in custody. Muntazer al-Zaidi had been due to hold a press conference in front of the Iraqi capital's Abu Discount Blancpain mosque in the mostly-Sunni district of Adhamiyah when an Iraqi army unit took him away. The Iraqi journalist who throwed a shoe at ex-US president George W Discount Breguet was detained today while attempting to hold a news conference in Baghdad, a reporter said.
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