Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and wife facing torture charges
The new indictment adds human-rights allegations to existing drug charges, and prosecutors say Maduro and Cilia Flores face potential life sentences.
- On Thursday, U.S. authorities unsealed a new indictment charging Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture, adding to drug trafficking offenses he faced since American forces captured him in Caracas in January.
- President Donald Trump's administration defended the January raid as a "surgical law enforcement operation," while Maduro has called his capture a kidnapping and himself a prisoner of war.
- Lawyers for Cilia Flores, 69, urged a judge Thursday for house arrest, citing her loss of 25 pounds while imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and ongoing heart problems.
- Prosecutors opposed the bail request in a court filing, writing that Flores would pose an "extreme risk of flight and danger to the public" if released from custody.
- Both defendants have pleaded not guilty to the years-old criminal charges, with their attorneys arguing for dismissal on immunity grounds as the leader and first lady of Venezuela.
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Winston-Salem JournalUS accuses Maduro of conspiring to torture
NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Thursday with conspiring to torture political opponents and American citizens, adding to the drug trafficking case the couple already faces.
Saleh stated that torture was one of the main tools of repression of Chavismo and defended the importance of these crimes being brought to justice.
On Thursday, the U.S. government accused Venezuela's overthrown president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, of being responsible for a conspiracy to torture U.S. and Venezuelan citizens.
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
West Hawaii TodayMaduro charged with ordering torture of Americans in Venezuelan prison
The Justice Department on Thursday announced new charges against ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accusing them of torturing detainees, including American citizens, to throttle the opposition and cling to power.
The United States on Thursday filed new torture charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, strengthening the criminal case against the couple held in US custody.
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