Peter Hitchens writes:
The episode of the Iraqi shoe-thrower has ceased to be funny at all. Muntadhar al-Zaidi has now been held incommunicado since December 21.
His family do not even know where he is.
When they saw him last he showed signs of having been disgracefully ill-treated, including severe bruising, a gash on the bridge of his nose, a missing tooth and what appeared to be a cigarette burn on his ear. Yet a ‘judge’ who interviewed him said there were ‘no signs’ of abuse.
Is this treatment proportionate? Those who claim the new Iraq is a democracy should surely be foremost in protesting.
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