Portugal asks Baghdad to lift immunity for ambassador's sons
LISBON - Portugal's foreign ministry asked Baghdad on Thursday to lift the diplomatic immunity of the Iraqi ambassador's teenage sons who are suspected of attempted homicide.
The foreign ministry said in a statement it conveyed the request to the Iraqi charge d'affaires in Lisbon.
The Portuguese attorney-general's office said in a statement late Wednesday that investigators suspect the ambassador's twin 17-year-old sons in the brutal beating last week of a 15-year-old Portuguese boy, who spent five days in a coma. He has severe facial and skull fractures. The attorney-general's office said it wanted the boys' immunity lifted so they can be interrogated by detectives.
