Baghdad - An Iraqi court on Tuesday reduced the sentence passed against the journalist who threw his shoes at former US president George W Bush, the journalist's brother said.

The Iraqi Court of Cassation on Tuesday reduced from three years to one year the prison sentence passed by a previous court's March 12 decision on Muntadher al-Zaidi for throwing his shoes at Bush at a December 14 press conference in Baghdad, his brother told the German Press Agency dpa on Tuesday.