Portugal seeks death penalty for Chinese couple whose daughter fell from Lisbon tower block

Portugal’s judiciary has handed out harsh sentences in the past, but issuing the death penalty to two Chinese citizens, whose daughter died when they went out gambling in a Lisbon casino, was exceptional – and wrong.

The parents of the five-year-old Chinese girl, who died in February 2016 after falling from the 21st floor of a tower block in the Parque das Nações in Lisbon, were back in China when they received notification of the death penalty which, as they had not realised this was a translation error, caused them to suffer stress and no small degree of despair.

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