Dheyaa Al-Saadi

Dheyaa al-Saadi (transliterations include also Dhiyaa) is an Iraqi lawyer. As leader of the Iraqi Bar Association, he protested against the Iraqi government's dissolution of the association's elected council in March 2006. In December 2008, he became the head of the legal team chosen by al-Baghdadia TV to defend Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi broadcast journalist working for al-Baghdadia who was under detention after having thrown his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush on December 14, 2008.

Read more about Dheyaa Al-Saadi:  Iraqi Bar Association, Defence of Al-Zaidi