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A court in Qatar has sentenced an American couple to three years in prison over the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter. The judge did not specify the exact charges of which they were convicted. But prosecutors had accused Matthew and Grace Huang of fatally starving their daughter Gloria, originally from Ghana, so that they could harvest her organs. The couple said it was "ridiculous" and that Gloria died from complications related to an eating disorder. "We have just been wrongfully convicted and we feel as if we are being kidnapped by the Qatar judicial system," Mr Huang told reporters outside the court. "This verdict is wrong and appears to be nothing more than an effort to save face," he added. They were also ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 Qatari riyals ($4,100; �2,490) each and will be deported after serving their sentences. The prosecution had demanded the death penalty. Post-mortem questioned The couple and their three young children - Gloria and two boys - moved to Qatar in 2012 when Mr Huang, an engineer, got a job working on a construction project for the 2022 Fifa World Cup. He and his wife were arrested in January 2013 after Gloria died in hospital after having not eaten for four days.