Woman in Portugal sentenced for storming parliament
Xinhua, November 18, 2016 Adjust font size:
A woman in Portugal who interrupted parliament last year during a plenary session to call for the country's former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison or a fine of 1,400 euros (1,488.05 U.S. dollars).
Ana Nicolau, 40, took part in a demonstration on March 11, 2015 to protest the former center-right prime minister's owing money to the social security system at the time.
She was charged with the crime of disrupting the functioning of the country's constitutional body, an act punishable with up to three years in prison.
The head of the panel of judges, Jose Lopes Barata, said the country needed determined citizens but pointed out that the country could not accept such behavior inside parliament. Endit