हिन्दी अनुवाद:
अमेरिका के तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति जॉर्ज डब्ल्यू. बुश पर जूता फेंक कर पूरे दुनिया में चर्चित हुए पत्रकार जैदी को इराक की एक कोर्ट ने तीन साल की जेल की सजा सुनाई है।
पिछले साल इराक की अपनी यात्रा के दौरान बुश पर जूता फेंकने के मामले में 30 वर्षीय टेलिविजन पत्रकार मुंतजर अल जैदी ने केन्द्रीय फौजदारी अदालत में अपने की निर्दोष बताया।
बचाव पक्ष के वकील यहिया अत्ताबी ने बगदाद अदालत के बाहर कहा कि उसे तीन साल की जेल की सजा सुनाई गई। उन्होंने कहा कि हमें इस फैसले की उम्मीद थी क्योंकि इराकी दंड संहिता के तहत उस पर एक विदेशी नेता के आधिकारिक दौरे के समय हमला करने का आरोप लगाया गया था। हम इसके खिलाफ अपील करेंगे। आरोप के तहत जैदी को अधिकतम 15 साल की सजा सुनाई जा सकती थी। अरब और मुस्लिम विश्व में किसी पर जूता फेंकना बेहद अपमानजनक माना जाता है।
जैदी ने बुश पर उस समय जूता फेंका जब वह एक प्रेस कॉन्फ्रंस को संबोधित कर रहे थे। इसे टेलिविजन के जरिये पूरी दुनिया में देखा जा रहा था। इस सम्मेलन में प्रधानमंत्री नूरी अल मलिकी भी मौजूद थे। बुश ने बेहद फुर्ती दिखाते जूते की जद से अपने को दूर कर लिया था।
English Translation:
A Baghdad judge ruled yesterday that an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush was guilty of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced him to three years in prison, a verdict that unleashed tumult in the courtroom.
"Long live Iraq!" shouted the television journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, as the sentence was handed down.
Smiling and waving, the 30-year-old Zaidi was escorted from the dilapidated courthouse in the Green Zone, where a crowd had gathered outside the courtroom doors. His sister collapsed on the floor in tears and police hustled two of his brothers out of the building after the verdict was heard.
"You're a hero, Muntadar!" some shouted.
"The judge were puppets sitting in the court," one brother, Dhurgham, said.
Zaidi became a folk hero of sorts in the Arab world after hurling both shoes at Bush, with considerable speed and accuracy, during a news conference Dec. 14. Bush ducked. "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" Zaidi had shouted as he threw the footwear. "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq."
In the days that followed, Zaidi's spectacle became a fixture of almost every conversation in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. The gesture captured the deep-seated anger many in Iraq feel toward the US occupation and the forces it unleashed that helped devastate the country. In Zaidi's honor, restaurants were renamed, banners hung, and graffiti scrawled across concrete barriers erected to stop attacks that still kill hundreds.
Zaidi faced up to 15 years in prison, but his lawyers said the judges showed leniency because of his age and lack of prior convictions.
Escorted by police to the defendant's seat, Zaidi wore the same brown leather shoes and beige suit he did in the opening court session last month.
Unlike that session, he offered only a short statement yesterday, answering the judge as to his innocence or guilt.
"I am innocent," he said. "What I did was a natural response to the occupation."
अमेरिका के तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति जॉर्ज डब्ल्यू. बुश पर जूता फेंक कर पूरे दुनिया में चर्चित हुए पत्रकार जैदी को इराक की एक कोर्ट ने तीन साल की जेल की सजा सुनाई है।
पिछले साल इराक की अपनी यात्रा के दौरान बुश पर जूता फेंकने के मामले में 30 वर्षीय टेलिविजन पत्रकार मुंतजर अल जैदी ने केन्द्रीय फौजदारी अदालत में अपने की निर्दोष बताया।
बचाव पक्ष के वकील यहिया अत्ताबी ने बगदाद अदालत के बाहर कहा कि उसे तीन साल की जेल की सजा सुनाई गई। उन्होंने कहा कि हमें इस फैसले की उम्मीद थी क्योंकि इराकी दंड संहिता के तहत उस पर एक विदेशी नेता के आधिकारिक दौरे के समय हमला करने का आरोप लगाया गया था। हम इसके खिलाफ अपील करेंगे। आरोप के तहत जैदी को अधिकतम 15 साल की सजा सुनाई जा सकती थी। अरब और मुस्लिम विश्व में किसी पर जूता फेंकना बेहद अपमानजनक माना जाता है।
जैदी ने बुश पर उस समय जूता फेंका जब वह एक प्रेस कॉन्फ्रंस को संबोधित कर रहे थे। इसे टेलिविजन के जरिये पूरी दुनिया में देखा जा रहा था। इस सम्मेलन में प्रधानमंत्री नूरी अल मलिकी भी मौजूद थे। बुश ने बेहद फुर्ती दिखाते जूते की जद से अपने को दूर कर लिया था।
English Translation:
A Baghdad judge ruled yesterday that an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush was guilty of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced him to three years in prison, a verdict that unleashed tumult in the courtroom.
"Long live Iraq!" shouted the television journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, as the sentence was handed down.
Smiling and waving, the 30-year-old Zaidi was escorted from the dilapidated courthouse in the Green Zone, where a crowd had gathered outside the courtroom doors. His sister collapsed on the floor in tears and police hustled two of his brothers out of the building after the verdict was heard.
"You're a hero, Muntadar!" some shouted.
"The judge were puppets sitting in the court," one brother, Dhurgham, said.
Zaidi became a folk hero of sorts in the Arab world after hurling both shoes at Bush, with considerable speed and accuracy, during a news conference Dec. 14. Bush ducked. "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" Zaidi had shouted as he threw the footwear. "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq."
In the days that followed, Zaidi's spectacle became a fixture of almost every conversation in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. The gesture captured the deep-seated anger many in Iraq feel toward the US occupation and the forces it unleashed that helped devastate the country. In Zaidi's honor, restaurants were renamed, banners hung, and graffiti scrawled across concrete barriers erected to stop attacks that still kill hundreds.
Zaidi faced up to 15 years in prison, but his lawyers said the judges showed leniency because of his age and lack of prior convictions.
Escorted by police to the defendant's seat, Zaidi wore the same brown leather shoes and beige suit he did in the opening court session last month.
Unlike that session, he offered only a short statement yesterday, answering the judge as to his innocence or guilt.
"I am innocent," he said. "What I did was a natural response to the occupation."
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