Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Publisher signals
67/100
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Politics
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Nicolás Maduro insisted on Thursday during an appearance in a New York court that torture allegations in a rewritten drug trafficking indictment against the deposed Venezuelan president and his wife were “false accusations”.
asserted
allegations → insist → president
Maduro, shackled at the ankles, was brought to court to face the new charges accusing the couple of leading a state-sponsored campaign of repression that tortured scores of victims, including three Americans.
asserted
that → shackle → Americans
Judge Alvin K Hellerstein entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
asserted
Hellerstein → enter → Maduro
They were seized from their Caracas home by the US military in a night-time raid in January.
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They → seize → January
Hellerstein announced that he was entering the plea on behalf of Maduro after Maduro twice responded to the judge’s request to enter a plea by criticizing the indictment, saying it contained “false accusations and false testimony”.
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it → announce → accusations
Maduro spoke through an interpreter.
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Maduro → speak → interpreter
Attorney Barry Pollack said when the charges were announced last week that Maduro, 63, denied them and “looks forward to his day in court”.
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Maduro → say → court
According to the rewritten indictment, Maduro oversaw a violent torture system that beat, asphyxiated and delivered electric shocks to its victims.
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that → accord → victims
He is accused of personally recommending torture methods, receiving updates on specific victims’ treatment and threatening to kill one prisoner’s child as a form of psychological torture.
asserted
He → accuse → torture
Flores, 70, a former attorney general, helped develop the repressive system and ordered the torture of some specific people, the indictment alleges.
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indictment → help → people
When she was asked to enter a plea, she said through an interpreter: “I am completely innocent.
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I → ask → interpreter
Maduro, who served as Venezuela’s president from 2013 until his capture in January, has been under investigation for years by the international criminal court over allegations of crimes against humanity, tied to his crackdown on opponents.
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who → serve → opponents
He has always denied wrongdoing.
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He → deny → wrongdoing
Prosecutors told the judge during the hearing that lawyers on both sides want the trial date moved from 1 June to 14 June.
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date → tell → June
Torture is a crime under international law and can be prosecuted outside the country where the abuse occurred and regardless of the victims’ nationality.
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abuse → prosecute → nationality
But the prosecution of foreign officials in the US is exceedingly rare, having been tried only a few times, including against the son of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, Russians responsible for war crimes in Ukraine and a former prison warden in Bashar Assad’s Syria.
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prosecution → try → Syria
Earlier this year, Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty in the US drug case, which said they conspired to flood the US with cocaine.
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they → plead → cocaine
Their attorneys say the case should be dismissed on immunity grounds because they were the leader and first lady of a foreign country.
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they → say → country
The revised indictment covers allegations of torture stretching back to Maduro’s ascent to power in 2013, when he took over as president from his mentor Hugo Chávez, who died of cancer that year.
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who → revise → cancer
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