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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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,...
US prosecutors accuse Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife of overseeing a system of torture and political repression for more than two decades, including directing the treatment of prisoners. The couple have denied all charges in a New York court.
(LPL) – Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to the new charges brought against them by the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, which recently accused them of leading a “system of repression,” including torture, during their appearance this Thursday before a judge in New York. Maduro [...]
Venezuela's former head of state Nicolás Maduro has been in a US prison ever since he was arrested. Now he has to answer for torture charges in court.
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