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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President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores Plead Not Guilty to Charges in New US Indictment
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores pleaded not guilty to the charges of torture in the new US indictment against them. On Thursday, October 15, they appeared at a court hearing in New York after the US Attorney General unveiled a new indictment against them last […]
The former head of state of Venezuela, Maduro, incarcerated in the United States, has rejected charges of torture in court.
New York., The kidnapped president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty to the new charges of alleged conspiracy to commit acts of torture, filed against him by the U.S. prosecutor's office, during his appearance yesterday before a judge in New York.
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