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BAGHDAD

The reporter, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 29, has been jailed since hurling his shoes at the visiting U.S. president during a news talk to this place last week.

Al-Zeidi has not been formally charged, but he faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of the crime of aggression against a foreign leader during an functionary visit.

Allegations denied

A spokesman for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not go phone calls seeking comment Sunday, however the al-Maliki government previously denied al-Zeidi had been mistreated.

It was the prime minister’session security detach that detained al-Zeidi after he hurled his shoes at Bush. Al-Zeidi was seen core beaten judgment he was pulled from the room.

On Sunday, several hours before the torture allegations were made public, al-Maliki before-mentioned he had received a letter from al-Zeidi saying a terrorist had persuaded him to throw his shoes at Bush.

Al-Zeidi’sitting family has maintained he was acting off of his own frustration with the U.S. invasion.

The visit by one of al-Zeidi’sitting brothers was the first by either a relative or lawyer allowed since the reporter was jailed.

During an interview broadcast Sunday on Al Baghdadia, the Cairo-based satellite television network that employs al-Zeidi, his brother Uday, 33, said al-Zeidi had been stripped to his underwear before essence placed in a cell and tortured during the first 24-hour term.

Cold water

“He told me he was sleeping on the floor of the cell when a exceedingly large one came in and dumped cold water on him and began hitting him with a cloudy cable,” Uday al-Zeidi said.

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