Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Is Returning to Federal Court to Face Torture Allegations
The superseding indictment says the pair led a repression campaign that tortured scores of victims, including three Americans, prosecutors said.
- Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores return to a New York courtroom to face a rewritten indictment accusing them of leading a state-sponsored campaign of repression that tortured scores of victims, including three Americans.
- According to the rewritten indictment, Maduro oversaw a violent system that beat, asphyxiated, and delivered electric shocks to victims; Flores allegedly helped develop the repression network and ordered torture of specific people.
- Maduro personally recommended torture methods and threatened to kill one prisoner's child, though Attorney Barry Pollack said last week that his client denies the allegations and looks forward to his day in court.
- Earlier this year, the couple pleaded not guilty in a separate Manhattan federal court drug case; their attorneys are seeking dismissal of all charges, citing immunity as the former leader and first lady of Venezuela.
- The revised indictment covers allegations stretching back to Maduro's 2013 ascent to power, while he remains under investigation by the International Criminal Court regarding long-standing allegations of crimes against humanity.
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At a hearing on Thursday in a federal court in New York, the former Venezuelan president denounced "false accusations" and "false testimony", while Cilia Flores was called "completely innocent"Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores pleaded not guilty on Thursday to further acquittals brought against them by the American courts for torture, the former Venezuelan head of state denouncing "false allegations."In a hearing of some 30 minutes in a f…
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KahawaTunguMaduro pleads not guilty to new torture-related charges in New York
NEW YORK - Venezuela’s former leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in court on Thursday to plead not guilty to new charges of conspiracy to commit torture.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife appeared in court in New York again, both pleading not guilty to torture charges that prosecutors added last week.
The former Venezuelan president appeared in shackles with his wife, Cilia Flores, before a Manhattan court; he called the charges “false” and starred in a harsh exchange with the magistrate
Nicolas Maduro had shrap words in a New York courtroom on Thursday. Venezuela's ousted leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in federal court to face newly added US charges accusing them of conspiracy to commit torture, the BBC reports. "I reject this document entirely," Maduro said, through a translator,...
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