Muntadhir Al-Zaidi is the Iraqi journalist charged with throwing his shoes at U.S. President George Bush.
Al-Zaidi was due to go on trial Wednesday, but the Criminal Court postponed it pending an appeal filed by his lawyers with the Federal Court of Appeal.
Al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes at Bush two weeks ago during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad.
Neither shoe hit the president, and others in the room quickly knocked Al-Zaidi to the ground before security officials arrested him.
His lawyers are trying to persuade the appeals court that Al-Zaidi did not want to harm Bush by throwing the shoes, but simply wanted to insult him. By tradition, throwing a shoe is the most insulting act in the Arab world.If Al-Zaidi is convicted of assaulting Bush he faces a maximum of 15 years in prison.
